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Related: About this forumUnite the Right Lawsuit jury has some verdicts
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Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Punitive damages against Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer, Christopher Cantwell, Robert 'Azzmador' Ray, Nathan Damigo, Eliott Kline, Matthew Heimbach, Matthew Parrott, Michael Hill, Michael Tubbs - $500,000 each
Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Punitive damages against Vanguard & League of the South, Identity Evropa, TWP, NSM - $1 Million each
Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Punitive damages against Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer, Christopher Cantwell, Robert 'Azzmador' Ray, Nathan Damigo, Eliott Kline, Matthew Heimbach, Matthew Parrott, Michael Hill, Michael Tubbs - $500,000 each
Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Punitive damages against Vanguard & League of the South, Identity Evropa, TWP, NSM - $1 Million each
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Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
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Nov 23, 2021
Replying to @UR_Ninja
Correction: punitive damages against individuals here were $200k not $500k each as we initially tweeted in a hurry
Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Replying to @UR_Ninja
Punitive damages against Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer, Christopher Cantwell, Robert 'Azzmador' Ray, Nathan Damigo, Eliott Kline, Matthew Heimbach, Matthew Parrott, Michael Hill, Michael Tubbs - $500,000 each
Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Total of compensatory and punitive damages in this case is around/over $25 million
2:47 PM · Nov 23, 2021
@UR_Ninja
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Nov 23, 2021
Replying to @UR_Ninja
Correction: punitive damages against individuals here were $200k not $500k each as we initially tweeted in a hurry
Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Replying to @UR_Ninja
Punitive damages against Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer, Christopher Cantwell, Robert 'Azzmador' Ray, Nathan Damigo, Eliott Kline, Matthew Heimbach, Matthew Parrott, Michael Hill, Michael Tubbs - $500,000 each
Unicorn Riot
@UR_Ninja
Total of compensatory and punitive damages in this case is around/over $25 million
2:47 PM · Nov 23, 2021
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Unite the Right Lawsuit jury has some verdicts (Original Post)
Yonnie3
Nov 2021
OP
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the chances are that any of the victims will
rurallib
Nov 2021
#4
Miguelito Loveless
(4,776 posts)1. Paltry damages in my opinion
They can crowd fund that from other Nazis.
underpants
(188,101 posts)2. Good.
sinkingfeeling
(53,659 posts)3. What CNN is reporting....
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/us/charlottesville-unite-the-right-trial-deliberations-tuesday/index.html
A federal jury in Charlottesville, Virginia, could not reach a verdict on claims one and two in the Unite the Right civil trial.
Claim one was the most prominent claim against the defendants in the civil lawsuit because it pertains to whether the defendants conspired to commit racially motivated violence.
The jury could also not reach a verdict on claim two, which pertains to whether the defendants had knowledge of a conspiracy for racially motivated violence and failed to prevent it.
The jury in Unite the Right trial finds all of defendants violated Virginia state conspiracy.
Without the jury present, the judge said, "I don't know why there's any misunderstanding about that. I think I'm going to tell them they must continue to try to reach a unanimous decision on all six counts."
The jury will decide in each count whether each defendant is liable for damages. In a civil trial, plaintiffs' attorneys have to show a defendant is liable by a "preponderance of evidence," Moon told jurors, meaning 50.1% or greater chance of the claim is true.
rurallib
(63,369 posts)4. Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the chances are that any of the victims will
ever see a nickel?
I have always wondered whether any of the awards that we hear folks get are ever paid?
Yonnie3
(18,295 posts)5. Some will
Fields' auto insurance will likely pay some to those injured in his attack.
The rest, I don't think it is likely, but I'm no expert.
Yonnie3
(18,295 posts)6. as TFG said there are some very fined people on one side
did I get that right?
Yonnie3
(18,295 posts)7. Link to filled in verdict form PDF
viva la
(3,903 posts)8. Remember the mom who sued the Klan in Idaho (Montana? I forget)
and bankrupted them-- ended up with their 'ranch'.
This will hurt them even if they do get donations.
Thunderbeast
(3,583 posts)9. Portland, Oregon
Tom Metzger and the White Arian Resistance (from Sand Point Idaho) were bankrupted in a civil trial led by Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center. White skinheads murdered an Ethiopian student named Mulugeta Seraw in 1988. The murder happened in my ultra-liberal Portland neighborhood.