The case at hand is a textbook copyright infringement suit that any first-year lawyer could handle.

The SPLC has stepped in because it can parlay the case into millions of donor-dollars, as it has in the past with civil suits against the Klan.

It works like this:

1. The SPLC uses its vast publicity resources to promote the case in its fundraising materials.

2. The court awards an astronomical amount to the victims, which the defendants have no possible means of paying.

3. The victims receive a minute fraction of the award while the SPLC takes in millions of donor-dollars from its ongoing PR campaign.

The victims never see a dime of that money and, in the case of the Klan trials, not a single additional Klansman goes to prison because of the trial.

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The only thing the SPLC brings to this suit is publicity.