Organizers of Charlottesville rally to stand trial

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 25 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The alt-right rally was held on August 11-12, 2017, in the process of which Neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched through the streets of Charlottesville waving signs with racist and antisemitic slogans. The rally resulted in the death of Heather Heyer and injured many others.

The lawsuit was filed on October 11, 2017, in the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia and demanded declaratory judgment that the defendants deprived the plaintiffs of their equal rights, injunctive relief that will prevent the defendants from similar violations in the future and compensatory, statutory and punitive damages.

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Five of the defendants failed to respond to the court and had default charges placed against them in early 2018. A request was made to dismiss the charges, but the presiding judge, Judge Norman K. Moon, denied the motion on July 9, 2018, because the plaintiffs adequately alleged that the defendants in question had conspired to harm black and Jewish people.

Following the failure to dismiss the case, the...