Sines v. Kessler

NORMAN K. MOON, SENIOR UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

*773In 1871, Congress passed a law "directed at the organized terrorism in the Reconstruction South[.]" Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Org. , 441 U.S. 600, 610 n.25, 99 S.Ct. 1905, 60 L.Ed.2d 508 (1979) ; see 42 U.S.C. § 1985. Over a hundred and forty years later, on August 11th and 12th, 2017, the Defendants in this lawsuit, including the Ku Klux Klan, various neo-Nazi organizations, and associated white supremacists, held rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia. Violence erupted. Charlottesville residents who suffered injuries at the rallies,…