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  Here are the three Britons who are challenging Brexit

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  The 52%-48% vote pitted Britons worried about immigration and EU regulations...voters who preferred to "Remain" in the EU. The Leave...the Supreme Court. USA ...
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  The three Britons challenging Brexit

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  The 52%-48% vote pitted Britons worried about immigration and EU regulations...voters who preferred to "Remain" in the EU. The Leave...the Supreme Court. USA ... 
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  Here are the three Britons who are challenging Brexit

  Oren Dorell , USA TODAY 4:50 p.m. EDT November 3, 2016
  

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  The British government can't unilaterally trigger the process of leaving the European Union without approval from lawmakers the High Court ruled on Thursday. USA TODAY
  

  (Photo: Niklas Halle'n, AFP/Getty Images)
  A hairdresser, a plumber and a former model-turned-philanthropist were behind the lawsuit that upended the British government's plans for leaving the European Union, known as Brexit.
  Britain's High Court ruled Thursday, agreeing with them that Parliament gets a say in Brexit and that Prime Minister Theresa May can't trigger the process on her own.
  The lawsuit came after the June 23 referendum in which a majority of voters in the United Kingdom supported leaving the 28-nation EU. It was filed by hairdresser Deir Dos Santos, plumber Charlie Mullins, and Gina Miller, an investment manager and philanthropist. They were backed by three London law firms and a crowdfunding effort.
  The 52%-48% vote pitted Britons worried about immigration and EU regulations and favored "Leave" against voters who preferred to "Remain" in the EU. The Leave victory led to the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron, who opposed the move and campaigned against it. The government, led by new Prime Minister Theresa May, said it would appeal Thursday's ruling to the Supreme Court.
  
  

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  Miller, speaking outside the courthouse, said she and her team were "absolutely delighted that we have been able to be part of this debate and to bring some sobriety as we go forward." She urged the government to "make the wise decision not to appeal but pressing forward and have a proper debate in our sovereign Parliament, the mother of all parliaments that we are so admired for."
  Here's what we know about the three people who filed the lawsuit:
  The hairdresser
  Dominic Chambers, a lawyer who worked on the lawsuit, described Dos Santos as "just an ordinary guy" who feels that "if his rights are going to be taken away, he wants it done in a proper and lawful manner," Bloomberg News reported. Dos Santos was born in Brazil and is a British citizen.
  The plumber
  Mullins is a plumbing contractor who left school at age 15 to start a four-year apprenticeship and later set out "with a second-hand van and a bag of tools," according to a profile on the website of his company, Pimlico Plumbers.
  "I set out to change the image of the plumbing industry and get rid of the stigma associated with it, i.e, plumbers who turn up late, driving rusty old vans, not wearing uniform, arses hanging out their trousers, bad workmanship and ripping off customers," he said on the site.
  Mullins showed up for Thursday's court decision in a blue Rolls Royce with personalized license plate — CH4 RLE — and a matching blue, double-breasted suit.
  He argued that getting Parliament involved would be better than "just a few busybodies" in government.
  "If you put Parliament together surely all their heads are better than just a couple of them," he said, according to Britain's Mirror Newspaper.
  
  Lead claimant in the Article 50 case, Gina Miller gives a statement outside of the High Court after a decision ruling in her landmark lawsuit in London, Nov. 3, 2016. (Photo: HANNAH MCKAY, EPA)
  The philanthropist
  Miller, who was born in Guyana but spent most of her life in the U.K., studied law, went into modeling and now owns the investment fund SCM Private with her husband Alan Miller. She has campaigned in the past to expose hidden charges in the industry, where she earned the nickname "black widow spider," according to an interview she gave the Financial Times. 
  Miller argues that only Parliament can make the decision to leave the EU, but she is not trying to reverse the decision made by voters in June.
  "We are all leavers now," she told BBC Radio 4.
  The case is bigger than the vote to exit the EU, she said.
  "It is about any government, any prime minister, in the future being able to take away people's rights without consulting Parliament," Miller said, according to the BBC. "We cannot have a democracy like that. That isn't a democracy, that is verging on dictatorship."