Right-wing think tank led by white nationalist Richard Spencer ordered to pay man hurt at Charlottesville rally $2 4 million dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
Ohio to Allow Transgender People to Change Gender on Birth Certificates
28 Apr 2021
The State of Ohio is set to become the 49th state to allow transgender people to change their gender on their official birth certificates.
The Ohio Department of Health has decided not to appeal a federal court ruling from December that ruled the state’s ban on gender changes in birth records is unconstitutional.
In December, Judge Michael Watson, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that the Buckeye State must allow for “corrections” on birth certificates after a lawsuit was filed by three women and one man seeking to change their birth records.
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Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R-Ohio) administration will not appeal a court decision requiring the Ohio Department of Health to alter birth certificates to erase biological sex. The court had ruled that Ohio had discriminated against people who identify as transgender and who sought to change their birth certificates to reflect a transgender identity.
“For more than a year, Ohioans have been told to trust science, and respect basic medical facts. Unfortunately, Governor DeWine has abandoned the science that shows that no one regardless of the medical procedures they receive, hormones they inject themselves with, or gender stereotypes they conform to can change their biological sex,” Aaron Baer, president of the Center for Christian Virtue (CCV) said in a statement on the decision.