Suing white supremacists is not for the faint of heart—but star litigators Roberta Kaplan and Karen Dunn are not backing down.

Representing 11 people who were injured in Charlottesville last August, they scored a big first-round win when a federal judge in Virginia on Monday refused to dismiss their suit against 24 of 25 defendants, including Richard Spencer, Andrew Anglin, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups and James Fields, the man who drove his car into counter-protestors.