Partisan cases like this do not settle for peanuts. That’s what I mean. A major reason that cases against large companies settle is because it is very costly and expensive to maintain a case against a defendant with almost unlimited resources compared to the plaintiff. They can bury you in paper and lawyer you to death. They can drag out their day of reckoning until you run out of money.
As long as they don’t cross the line into outright barratry, outside money can make it real easy to keep pursuing a case. Depending on the jurisdiction and the jury pool, this case could have been a significant exposure for CNN. I suspect that the plaintiff filed suit in Kentucky.
Therefore I don’t think that the plaintiff would settle for peanuts.
But I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything so this doesn’t bother me. That has the added bonus of saving me the embarrassment of posting ridiculous shit like, “The Sandmann family has limitless resources when compared to CNN.”
Like flat out, dumb as shit, obviously untrue, low IQ keyboard diarrhea like Damuri Ajashi is currently selling in this thread.
So you have no response to my argument other than “I don’t find it convincing” This is the pit and you can reply to arguments with insults but that just makes you look inept.
I don’t remember if it was you or another poster But I think it was you that I thought was a total retard. it might have been another poster. I have to start keeping better track of the retards.
… When these asshole snowflakes like Smirky McDouchebag and others (Deven Nues etc) file stupid SLAAP laswuits and lose, they shoul be forced to pay ALL the court costs and lawyer fees for BOTH sides. Make it cost, and I bet their bullshit would stop.
“Nicholas Sandmann agreed to settle with the Post because the Post was quick to publish the whole truth—through its follow-up coverage and editor’s notes,” Sandmann’s attorney, Todd McMurtry, said in an email.
could be taken to infer that WaPo may have gotten off a little lighter.
Sandmann in 2019 became a national news story when as a student at Covington Catholic High School he was in Washington, DC, for the annual March for Life rally.
In a video that gained national attention, Sandmann was in an encounter with Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips, who was beating a hand-held drum and singing at the Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial on the same day.
Another video that surfaced days later provided additional context for the encounter, but the first video had gone viral, touching off widespread controversy as photos of the teenager and the red Make America Great Again hat he was wearing spread across social media.
In the second video, a group of black men who identified as members of the Black Hebrew Israelites were seen taunting the students from Covington Catholic High School with disparaging language and shouting racist slurs at participants in the Indigenous Peoples Rally and other passersby.
Sandmann at the time strongly denied accusations against him, saying he had been trying to “defuse the situation” by “remaining motionless and calm.”
Major news outlets, including the Washington Post, the Associated Press and CNN, covered the aftermath of the incident.
Sandmann also filed lawsuits against several other news organizations, including CNN.
CNN settled with Sandmann in January. The terms of that settlement were not disclosed.