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Paul, Weiss Receives Robert F. Mullen Pro Bono Award by the Lawyers’ Committee
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law presented Paul, Weiss with its 2024 Robert F. Mullen Pro Bono Award, which honors a law firm that has provided extraordinary pro bono legal services on behalf of a Lawyers’ Committee client or matter.
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church Files New Lawsuit to Enforce $2.8 Million Judgment Against Proud Boys
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, alongside Paul, Weiss, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church to enforce a $2.8 million judgment against the Proud Boys and its leaders.
Victims of Charlottesville Rally Eligible for Higher Punitive Damages Against Leaders of “Unite the Right” Rally, Fourth Circuit Rules
As reported by the Washington Post, the AP, and other publications, Paul, Weiss and co-counsel Hecker Fink and Cooley LLP won an appeal in the Fourth Circuit on July 1, 2024. The court overturned a lower court decision capping punitive damages at $350,000 total for victims of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Black Church That Could Bankrupt the Proud Boys
The lawsuit filed by Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church against the Proud Boys and its leaders has the potential to “unravel the inner workings of the high-profile far-right gang” and “force the Proud Boys to hand over assets, or even members’ personal property, to the church,” writes Vice.