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A former Athens County resident was awarded more than $2.4 million by a federal judge this month following a lawsuit he filed in connection to severe injuries and trauma he sustained at the 2017 âunite the rightâ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
William Burke will be paid by The National Policy Institute the amount for lost wages and benefits, past and future medical expenses, punitive damages, as well as for emotional distress, according to federal court documents.
The National Policy Institute is a white supremacist and alt-right group based in Virginia, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated it as a hate group. Also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit is Andrew Anglin, creator of the Ohio-based neo-Nazi internet forum The Daily Stormer.
Federal judge strikes down Ohio law blocking trans people from amending their birth certificates
Court finds Ohio s policy, which was made more restrictive in 2016, does not pass constitutional muster
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The Joseph P. Kinneary Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio – Photo: Ɱ, via Wikimedia.
A federal judge has struck down the state of Ohio’s policy prohibiting transgender residents from amending their birth certificates to reflect their correct gender identity.
U.S. District Judge Michael Watson, of the Southern District of Ohio’s Eastern Division, ruled that the policy barring transgender people from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates which was introduced in 2016 by the Department of Health under then-Gov. John Kasich (R) was unconstitutional.