Plaintiffs had appealed a ruling by a federal judge that slashed the $24 million a jury awarded in 2021 for physical harm and emotional distress stemming from the rally. A federal appeals court on Monday restored more than $2 million of damages a jury said some of the nation’s most prominent white supremacists and hate groups owed for their role in 2017’s deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
This ruling allows plaintiffs to collect — nearly three years after a jury said they were entitled to relief for the physical harm and emotional distress they incurred when white supremacists descended on Charlottesville in a weekend of hate. Among the defendants was a neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and striking four of the plaintiffs.
Although Monday’s order to apply the punitive damages cap on a per-plaintiff basis significantly lowers the original $24 million owed, attorneys for the plaintiffs viewed it as a win for their clients who testified in courtfrom the 2017 violence. That weekend, the plaintiffs testified during the trial, had a reverberating impact on their lives, including ongoing post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, the dissolution of a marriage and medical complications from a skull fracture.
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