A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that Shenandoah County Public Schools’ reinstatement of Confederate military names to schools was discriminatory, the Associated Press reported. In May 2024, the school board voted to reverse that decision. The Virginia NAACP filed a lawsuit against the county school board, arguing that reinstating the names discriminated against Black students. On Thursday, Judge Michael F. Urbanski ruled that reinstating the names violated Black students’ rights under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. The judge ruled the board to find new school names that were not racially discriminatory “with all deliberate speed.”