Special Collection: Litigation Against Hate Groups

Museum exhibit showing Ku Klux Klan outfit and materials.

Exhibit with Statue of Ku Klux Klan Member at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.

Adam Jones, PhD (2012), via Wikimedia Commons

This collection includes civil lawsuits against hate groups.

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8 Cases
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Vietnamese Fishermen's Ass'n v. Knights, etc.

81-00895 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

(This summary is temporary while we research this case further). In 1981, an organization of Vietnamese Fisherman and individual Vietnamese fisherman filed a lawsuit against the KKK, the Grand Dragon…

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Keenan v. Aryan Nations

99-441 | Idaho state trial court

Filed Date: 1999

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). In 1999, a plaintiff succeed in suing the Aryan Nations after armed security guards at their compound shot at plaintiff and her son and…

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Metropolitan A.M.E. Church v. Proud Boys Int'l LLC

2021-CA-000004-B | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: 2021

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). In 2021, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church sued the Proud Boys. In 2025, the court awarded AME the Proud Boys's…

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Gordon Jewish Community Center v. Goyim Defense League

3:25-cv-01438 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On December 10, 2025, the Gordon Jewish Community Center (GJCC) sued Goyim Defense League (GDL), a white supremacist organization, and …

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Buck v. Goyim Defense League

3:25-cv-00677 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Black plaintiff suing a white supremacist organization for 10-day hate campaign
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City of Springfield, Ohio v. The Blood Tribe

3:25-cv-00033 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

The city of Springfield, Ohio sued a white supremacist group for its intimidation and harassment campaign against the Haitian immigrant community and other nonwhite communities.
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Murrell v. Patriot Front

1:23-cv-11802 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2023

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). In July, 2022, members of Patriot Front participated in a "flash march" in Boston; several members of the group allegedly beat an unarm…

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Sines v. Kessler

3:17-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

Civil rights lawsuit over 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA, resulted in $15 million jury verdict.