Today jurors in Virginia found the main organizers of the deadly 2017 right-wing rally in Charlottesville, a mix of white nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis (or as Trump once called them, "many fine people"), liable for the injuries to counter-protesters, awarding more than $25 million in damages, but were deadlocked on federal conspiracy charges.
Meanwhile, in Cleveland, a jury found that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart substantially contributed to the epidemic of opioid overdoses in two Ohio counties, the first jury verdict in an opioids case. The decision embraced a key legal argument that judges in other opioids cases had recently rejected, and is the first time the retail segment of the drug industry has been held accountable in the decades-long epidemic.
Finally, the jury is now deliberating in the Brunswick, Georgia trial of three white men accused of killing an innocent and unarmed black man who was out jogging in their neighborhood. It is widely hoped that the Georgia jury exercises the same common sense and good will as that displayed today in Charlottesville and Cleveland.
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