Having watched the videos in this post, I am impressed with the leadership of the people calling this out and fighting back with a lawsuit. I think they will win and the plaques will go back. I was also impressed with Judge Rufe, who is actually going to look at the plaques and see if they were damaged in their removal!! Yes, you heard it right: she's going herself to assess this.
Talk about taking a bull by the horns!
What a terrific judge. Here's a pic of her and a paragraph about her from her Wiki page:
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Following law school graduation, Rufe served as a public defender in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, spending much of her tenure there in the juvenile division. She became a deputy public defender in 1980. Soon thereafter, she left government service to practice privately. She practiced in her own firm for 11 years, gaining prominence in the local legal community. In 1994, she was elected as a judge of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, where she served for eight years, until 2002.
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I am always impressed when I see a judge has spent time as a public defender. That means they know about a legal system that pays scant attention to the rights of those who cannot afford attorneys.
on edit: I watched the first video for a second time. It looks like the plaques are metal as they seemed to bend when pulled off the wall. I have high hopes they will be OK, although it was said that they tossed them in the back of a vehicle, so they may have become scratched. If so, that's somewhat easy to repair. Paint matching might be the biggest problem.
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