Jury held defendants liable in Sines v. Kessler for conspiring
to deprive minorities and?their supporters of their civil rights;
awarded substantial compensatory and punitive damages against each
defendant
Washington, DC - November 23, 2021 - Nine
plaintiffs, who were victims of a coordinated attack by white
supremacists during the "Unite the Right" rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, won a historic
victory in the landmark federal lawsuit Sines v.
Kessler. A Cooley team led by Alan Levine, David Mills and Bob
Cahill acted pro bono on behalf of the plaintiffs alongside Kaplan
Hecker & Fink, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison,
and Woods Rogers.
Sines v. Kessler was filed on
October 11, 2017, and was backed by the nonpartisan
nonprofit civil rights organization Integrity First for
America. The vicious attacks on innocent protestors, including
the killing of Heather Heyer, and the harming dozens of others
sparked global attention.
