Court cites anti-terrorism law in okaying suit against Charlottesville white supremacists, neo-nazi
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza
Daily Kos Staff
Wednesday July 11, 2018 · 12:07 PM EDT
When Integrity First for America filed a complaint against the organizers of the Charlottesville “rally,” the organization was reviving an older legal tactic for dealing with a newly relevant problem. Led by Roberta Kaplan and Karen Dunn, and representing victims of violence in Charlottesville, IFA argued that the white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizers of the event conspired to promote racially and religiously motivated violence, resulting in injuries and death—a claim amply supported by publicly available evidence.
Kaplan and Dunn’s first hurdle was defeating the assorted defendants’ efforts to get the case dismissed. Fighting a motion to dismiss a complaint requires convincing the judge that the plaintiff’s legal claims are plausible; trial’s when counsel has to convince a judge or jury that a plaintiff’s right.
This week, plaintiffs won this threshold battle. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia issued a 62-page ruling green-lighting plaintiffs’ claims under, among other laws, the Klu Klux Klan Act.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/11/1779649/-Court-cites-anti-terrorism-law-in-okaying-suit-against-Charlottesville-white-supremacists-neo-Nazis#view-story
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