Georgetown Law’s ICAP Sues to Prevent Paramilitary Groups' Return to Charlottesville

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Oct. 12, 2017) – The heavily armed private militias and alt-right groups that converged on Charlottesville during the August 12 “Unite the Right” rally engaged in highly coordinated and unlawful paramilitary activity that transformed the city into a virtual combat zone, a suit filed today claims.

Citing alt-right organizers’ vows to return to Charlottesville and invoking provisions of Virginia law, Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) filed a complaint today asking a Virginia state court to prohibit key “Unite the Right” organizers and an array of participating private paramilitary groups and their commanders from coming back to Virginia to conduct illegal paramilitary activity.

https://csauth.law.georgetown.edu/news/press-releases/lawsuit-charlottesville.cfm

Complaint: https://csauth.law.georgetown.edu/academics/centers-institutes/constitutional-advocacy-protection/upload/lawsuit-charlottesville.pdf

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