US white supremacists ordered to pay millions more for deadly 2017 rally

White nationalists and groups were ordered to pay more than $24m for damages stemming from Unite the Right rally

Four years after deadly violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay a total of more than $26m in damages to people with physical or emotional injuries from the event.

Most of that money, $24m, was for punitive damages, but a judge later slashed that amount to $350,000 - to be shared by eight plaintiffs. On Monday, a federal appeals court restored more than $2m in punitive damages, finding that each of the plaintiffs should receive $350,000, instead of the $43,750 each would have received under the lower court's ruling.