White supremacists ordered to pay $2M for role in Charlottesville's Unite the Right rally

Note that one of the attorneys is Roberta Kaplan!!



Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence

https://wtop.com/virginia/2024/07/court-orders-white-nationalists-to-pay-2m-more-for-charlottesville-unite-the-right-violence/

The Associated Press July 2, 2024, 5:00 AM


..................Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they were pleased by the court’s ruling.

“Today’s decision restores over $2 million in punitive damages from the jury’s verdict, which sent a clear message against racist and antisemitic hate and violence,” attorneys Roberta Kaplan, David E. Mills and Gabrielle E. Tenzer said in a statement.

Lawyers for the defendants did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.

The verdict from the 2021 trial was a rebuke to the white nationalist movement, particularly for the two dozen individuals and organizations accused in a federal lawsuit of orchestrating violence against African Americans, Jewish people and others in a meticulously planned conspiracy.










@ArtCandee
Ha!!!!! Finally some good news today!

White Nationalist organizers of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville have to cough up some cash.

After a jury verdict was made in 2021 of $26 million in damages, a judge slashed it to $350,000.

Today, a three-judge panel of the Richmond 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the jury’s award of $2 million in compensatory damages, but found that a state law that imposes the $350,000 cap on punitive damages should be applied PER PERSON instead of for all of the eight plaintiffs, as a lower court judge decided.

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White supremacists ordered to pay $2M for role in Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally

White nationalists and hate groups are being ordered to pay more than $2 million for their role in Charlottesville’s deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.


By Maggie Glass
Published: Jul. 2, 2024 at 4:28 PM CDT|Updated: 15 hours ago

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - White nationalists and hate groups are being ordered to pay more than $2 million for their role in Charlottesville’s deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.

That’s what a federal appeals court says.

The money will be divided between eight plaintiffs for the physical harm and emotional distress that they endured.

This decision answers the question: What is the price tag on punitive damage in Virginia?