A rapid-fire series of court orders over the controversial statue of Christopher Columbus in Marconi Plaza ended, for now, with the monument maintaining its spot in the South Philadelphia public area shielded from onlookers inside a plywood box. George Bochetto, who has led the legal fight to bring the statue back into the public view, said what happens next is in the hands of the Commonwealth Court, but he is working to expedite a ruling. 

The Marconi Plaza case is only one of a number of Columbus-related suits in which Bochetto is involved. He is currently representing the Italian Sons & Daughters of America as they fight to uncover a Columbus monument in Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park, and he is leading yet another fight against Mayor Jim Kenney and the city of Philadelphia over the renaming of Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.