A charitable organization made up of Italian-American women has sued the city, seeking to bring back the Christopher Columbus statue to Wooster Square Park. The American Italian Women for Greater New Haven claim in the suit that the city, through Mayor Justin Elicker and the Board of Parks Commissioners, among others, violated their rights to due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as their First Amendment rights and Civil Rights Act protections, when the statue was removed June 24, 2020.