Judge slashes punitive damages owed by Unite the Right hate groups to $350K
the jury’s verdict in finding all defendants — which also included former alt-right leader Richard Spencer, rally organizer Jason Kessler and Christopher Cantwell, dubbed the “crying Nazi” — liable for conspiring to intimidate, harass or commit acts of violence during the rally.
Karen Dunn and Roberta Kaplan, co-lead counsel for the Charlottesville plaintiffs, said in a statement that they were “carefully considering” an appeal regarding the cap on punitive damages.Plaintiffs’ attorneys had argued that even if the damages cap applied, it should only apply per plaintiff, meaning each of the eight plaintiffs seeking punitive damages would be awarded $350,000. Moon rejected that reasoning, according to his Dec. 30 order.
“Judge Moon’s lengthy opinion reviewing the mountain of evidence we introduced at trial and affirming the jury verdicts on the culpability of each and every defendant confirms what really happened — motivated by the tenets of white supremacy, defendants engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to commit violence in Charlottesville in August 2017,” the attorneys’ statement reads.
Attorney James Kolenich, who represents defendant Nathan Damigo and the group Identity Evropa, said he had expected Moon to lower the punitive damages and was not surprised by the ruling. Kolenich declined to comment further.The federal trial in Charlottesville lasted more than four weeks during the fall of 2021 and, at times, sounded like a far-right podcast.
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