04/01/2011 4:20 PM ET from MPBN
The suit has been filed against Maine Gov. Paul LePage and other state officials for taking down an 11-panel mural depicting the history of labor in Maine that LePage ordered removed from the state's Department of Labor.
A lawsuit has been filed in federal court against Maine Gov. Paul LePage and other state officials for removing the labor history mural from the lobby of the state's Department of Labor.
The lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three artists, an attorney who requested a hearing before it was removed and two people in the labor community who have meetings in the building.
Artist Judy Taylor, who created the 11-panel mural that depicts the history of labor in Maine, is not one of the plaintiffs. Among other things, the plaintiffs are asking that the mural be restored.
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