Orange County officials asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss an attempt to block Wal-Mart Stores Inc. from building a Supercenter near a Civil War battlefield.
The filing by the Board of Supervisors contends preservationists and residents who filed the legal challenge have no standing in the issue and defended the county's Aug. 25 vote approving the store near the Wilderness Battlefield.
"Plaintiffs want to prevent use of land that they do not own, and this suit is a contrived effort to enable them to do so," the county filing states.
An Orange County Circuit court judge had not scheduled a hearing.
Preservationists have opposed Wal-Mart's plans to build less than one-half mile from the Locust Grove battlefield where 30,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were injured or killed 145 years ago.
It was filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, and six residents of Orange and Spotsylvania counties.
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