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White Nationalist’s Ohio Lawsuit Ends
By: Associated Press
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CINCINNATI (AP) – A lawsuit over white nationalist Richard Spencer’s effort to speak at an Ohio college has been dropped.
A federal court filing Wednesday showed both Spencer’s campus tour organizer and the University of Cincinnati have agreed to drop the case. No other details were available immediately.
A trial had been scheduled for next year in U.S. district court.
The school last October agreed to let Spencer speak, and his tour organizers had set a date in March. But they then sued in January over UC’s security fee demand of nearly $11,000 that Spencer’s attorney at the time called discriminatory and unconstitutional. The school later said that amount was a “mere fraction” of its expected costs.
Spencer calls his views “alt-right.” He advocates a white “ethno-state” and espouses anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant beliefs.