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Springfield, Ohio, Sues Neo-Nazi Group, Saying It Intimidated Residents
Paul, Weiss, alongside the Anti-Defamation League and local counsel, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the City of Springfield, Ohio, seeking to hold the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe accountable for their months-long racist hate campaign against the city, its officials and its residents over the recent influx of Haitian immigrants.
Metropolitan AME Wins Trademark Rights to Proud Boys Name
The Superior Court of the District of Columbia awarded the Proud Boys’ trademarked name and symbols to Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group, writes The New York Times.
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.
Jury Finds “Unite the Right” Rally Organizers Responsible for Violence, Awards Over $20 Million in Damages
In “a clear rebuke” to the white supremacists, neo-Nazis and white nationalists who organized the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, writes The New York Times, a jury found every one of the defendants liable for a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence under Virginia law.
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.