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

RICHMOND, Va. — Four years after violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay a total of more than $26 million in damages to people with physical or emotional injuries from the event. Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Collecting $26M award vs. white nationalists may be tough

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — Nine people who sued white nationalist leaders and organizations over the violence at a deadly rally in Charlottesville in 2017 won a $26 million judgment for the injuries and trauma they endured. He said the plaintiffs’ lawyers who sued him “just wasted $20 million to try and play Whac-A-Mole with public figureheads.” Months before the trial, Richard …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: Unite the Right verdict sends an urgent message

CNN

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. CNN — For those of us who are growing increasingly worried about the prospect of even more deadly political violence in the United States, Tuesday’s verdict by a Charlottesville jury – which held extreme far-right leaders and groups that organized and participated in the violent …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'Violent hate won't go unanswered': Plaintiffs and community celebrate Charlottesville verdict

Raw Story

The decision by a Virginia jury to find the organizers of Unite the Right liable for conspiracy to commit racial, religious and ethnic harassment and violence was hailed by the legal team and the Charlottesville community today. "This case has sent a clear message: Violent hate won't go unanswered," said Amy Spitalnick, the executive director of Integrity First for America, …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Charlottesville defendants found liable for civil conspiracy and ordered to pay millions in damages

Raw Story

Returning a verdict against dozensof white supremacist leaders and organizations who organized Unite the Right, a Virginia jury has awarded more than $25 million in damages to nine plaintiffs who were injured in the violence during the chaotic rally that ended with a car attack by James Fields. While the ostensible reason for the rally was to support two Confederate …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville

NPR

Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A jury in Virginia has found a group of white nationalists who organized the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., liable of engaging in a conspiracy ahead of the violent demonstration, awarding the plaintiffs …

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3 years, 1 month ago

For Charlottesville Survivors And Activists, The Work Goes On

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING In the coming days, a dozen jurors will decide whether a group of extremists owe money ― potentially millions ― to some of the people they terrorized four years ago during a horrifically racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Kathryn Laughon, a University of Virginia nursing professor involved with anti-fascist and anti-racist community efforts, told HuffPost that it’s …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Richard Spencer tries to sanitize white nationalism as Charlottesville defendants stumble to the finish line

Raw Story

Richard Spencer pontificated on his belief in white nationalism and the lawyer for Matthew Heimbach played a YouTube video of the former Traditionalist Worker Party leader condemning "the international Jewish system" during their closing arguments on Thursday, as they defended themselves against conspiracy claims for their role in organizing the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally. RELATED: Unite the Right …

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3 years, 1 month ago

‘Unite the Right’ trial jurors hear closings in Virginia

Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. — White nationalists “planned, executed and then celebrated” racially motivated violence that killed one counterprotester and injured dozens, lawyers for nine people hurt during the 2017 “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville said Thursday as they urged jurors to hold some of the country’s most well-known white supremacists accountable. Attorney James Kolenich, who represents Jason Kessler, the lead …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Unite the Right defendant Chris Cantwell ends Charlottesville trial by incriminating himself -- again

Raw Story

A jury in a federal civil case to determine whether the dozens of white power extremist leaders and organizations involved in the 2017 Unite the Right rally were liable for conspiring to commit racially motivated violence has now heard all the evidence as the four-week trial in Virginia draws to a close. Cantwell pursued a fruitless quest to get two …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Judge warns Charlottesville defendants that they've already provided ample evidence to prove conspiracy

Raw Story

The jury empaneled to hear a federal civil conspiracy case could find that the defendants devised a plan to come to Charlottesville, Va. "with the idea of provoking a fight and applying an overwhelming response" based on the evidence presented so far, Judge Norman K. Moon told defendants Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell on Tuesday. "That statement, along with other …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'You made my skin crawl': Charlottesville trial goes off the rails as defendants accuse one another of sociopathy

Raw Story

Jason Kessler, the primary organizer of the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally, took the witness stand in a Charlottesville federal courtroom on Monday, where he was cross-examined by none other than fellow white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. READ: 'Unite the Right' defendants wanted a violent 'battle of Charlottesville' -- and lawyers just showed the receipts to prove it Dunn …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'Unite the Right' defendants wanted a violent 'battle of Charlottesville' -- and lawyers just showed the receipts to prove it

Raw Story

Jason Kessler, a onetime gadfly conservative journalist and neo-Confederate activist who convened an array of violent white nationalist groups under the banner of the Unite the Right rally in 2017, took the witness stand in a federal courtroom in Charlottesville, Va. on Monday. Other Discord posts presented by the plaintiffs showed Kessler privately referring to the Unite the Right rally …

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3 years, 1 month ago

6 Takeaways From The 'Unite The Right' Trial In Charlottesville So Far

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING An unsavory array of right-wing figures appeared in a Charlottesville, Virginia, federal court this week, marking the third straight week of trial proceedings in an ambitious, long-running civil lawsuit against a dozen individuals and groups accused of planning the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017. The nine plaintiffs in the suit — which was brought by …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Former white nationalist leader gives damning testimony against Charlottesville defendants

Raw Story

Plaintiffs in the landmark civil litigation against the organizers of the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally brought their final witnesses to the stand on Friday, including a law student at the University of Virginia and the commander of the National Socialist Movement. "When the tail of the marchers finally finished coming down the stairs — it was systematic — …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'Excited about killing Jewish people': Blockbuster Charlottesville testimony suggests Nazi defendants had bigger goals

Raw Story

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Elliott Kline, the No. Like Spencer and Kessler, Identity Evropa was part of the Unite the Right coalition that placed a relative degree of emphasis on optics and respectability, relative to the more working-class constituent organizations in the defunct Nationalist Front Alliance, along with Andrew Anglin and Robert "Azzmador" Ray of the Daily Stormer website, and neo-Nazi …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'Unite The Right' Trial Kicks Off With Focus On Organizers' Calls For Violence

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The civil trial over the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally got underway in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Thursday as lawyers for community members argued that white nationalist organizers of the event planned for and encouraged violence. The night of Aug. 11, 2017, dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched with tiki torches through the University of Virginia’s …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Charlottesville jury set after some jurors who railed against Antifa 'terrorists' get struck

Raw Story

Twelve jurors from Charlottesville and the surrounding area have been seated to render judgement on whether the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally conspired to commit racially motivated violence in a federal trial. Jury selection, which Judge Moon described as "difficult," has been roiled by questions about whether jurors can render an impartial decision, with counsel for the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Unite the Right defendants are making an issue of the fact that opposing counsel is Jewish — in and out of the courtroom

Raw Story

The white supremacist organizers of the Unite the Right rally, many of them broke and at least two representing themselves, have complained that they're going up against a legal adversary with superior talent and resources in the landmark federal civil trial underway in Charlottesville, Va. Kaplan's initiative has earned her celebratory coverage in the Jewish press, including a story in …

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3 years, 1 month ago

‘Unite the Right’ rally’s planners accused in civil trial

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — The violence at the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville shocked the nation, with people beaten to the ground, lighted torches thrown at counterdemonstrators and a self-proclaimed Hitler admirer ramming his car into a crowd, killing a woman and injuring dozens more. It accuses some of the country’s most well-known white nationalists of orchestrating a …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Charlottesville’s reckoning: Unite the Right organizers go on trial

Raw Story

A civil trial against organizers of the deadly August 2017 Unite the Right rally gets underway in Charlottesville, Va. today, the culmination of more than four years of litigation. The plaintiffs, who were injured in the explosion of violence that culminated when James Alex Fields Jr. accelerated his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of antiracist marchers killing Heather Heyer, seek …

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3 years, 2 months ago

The trial of the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' organizers is underway

NPR

The trial of the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' organizers is underway In Charlottesville, Va., the trial of far-right extremists associated with 2017's Unite the Right rally has begun. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Jury selection began this morning in a civil trial in Charlottesville, with two dozen defendants involved in the deadly Unite the Right rally there in the summer of 2017. …

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

Collecting $26M award vs. white nationalists may be tough

Opinion: Unite the Right verdict sends an urgent message

'Violent hate won't go unanswered': Plaintiffs and community celebrate Charlottesville verdict

Charlottesville defendants found liable for civil conspiracy and ordered to pay millions in damages

Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville

For Charlottesville Survivors And Activists, The Work Goes On

Richard Spencer tries to sanitize white nationalism as Charlottesville defendants stumble to the finish line

‘Unite the Right’ trial jurors hear closings in Virginia

Unite the Right defendant Chris Cantwell ends Charlottesville trial by incriminating himself -- again

Judge warns Charlottesville defendants that they've already provided ample evidence to prove conspiracy

'You made my skin crawl': Charlottesville trial goes off the rails as defendants accuse one another of sociopathy

'Unite the Right' defendants wanted a violent 'battle of Charlottesville' -- and lawyers just showed the receipts to prove it

6 Takeaways From The 'Unite The Right' Trial In Charlottesville So Far

Former white nationalist leader gives damning testimony against Charlottesville defendants

'Excited about killing Jewish people': Blockbuster Charlottesville testimony suggests Nazi defendants had bigger goals

'Unite The Right' Trial Kicks Off With Focus On Organizers' Calls For Violence

Charlottesville jury set after some jurors who railed against Antifa 'terrorists' get struck

Unite the Right defendants are making an issue of the fact that opposing counsel is Jewish — in and out of the courtroom

‘Unite the Right’ rally’s planners accused in civil trial

Charlottesville’s reckoning: Unite the Right organizers go on trial

The trial of the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' organizers is underway