Three members of the Butler PA Patriots group must dissolve a nonprofit they named the “Butler County Republican Committee,” a county judge ruled Wednesday.

Following a nearly two-hour hearing on Tuesday, President Judge S. Michael Yeager issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday prohibiting Bill Halle, Erik Edwards and Zach Scherer from using the committee’s name “for any purpose whatsoever” and requiring the trio withdraw their fictitious name registration and dissolve their nonprofit using the committee’s name.

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