Jurisdiction At The Heart Of Charlottesville Defamation Case

By James Stewart and Rian Dawson (November 21, 2019, 4:16 PM EST) -- All eyes were on Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017, as counterprotesters gathered in opposition to the Unite the Right rally organized by various white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Ostensibly, the rally sought to protest the Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a city park, and to change the name of the park from Lee Park to Emancipation Park....

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