CNN on Tuesday settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor.
Fox 19 first reported that CNN settled with Sandmann for an undisclosed amount. The $250 million defamation suit sought damages for the “emotional distress Nicholas and his family suffered” in the fallout of the network’s reporting.
A lawyer for Sandmann declined to comment on the settlement but confirmed to Fox News that lawsuits against The Washington Post and NBC were ongoing. Fox 19 also reported that Sandmann attorney L. Lin Wood told the judge they planned to sue media company Gannett within 60 days. Gannett did not immediately comment either.
Last March, Sandmann’s attorneys launched their suit against CNN for its coverage of the incident before all the facts had surfaced. The teen was seeking a whopping $800 million in damages between the three news outlets.
This makes me very happy!!! Gannett papers tried to frame me once years ago from an opinion piece I wrote. Yayyyy JUSTICE!!!!
I hope he didn’t take the first offer they put on the table.
‘CNN settled with Sandmann for an undisclosed amount.’
However, next week when Sandmann – and all his buddies – come to school in brand-new Porsches… 🙂
CNN,
one step closer to the slippery slope cliff of bankruptcy.
Let’s see if WaPo and NBC are smart enough to take the hint. Personally, I’m hoping at least one of them is dumb enough to let it get into a courtroom.
Sue their ass into oblivion! Irresponsible and outright false and misleading reporting can no longer be tolerated. The media is a partner, if not gang leader, in the crime of destroying this country. We’ll see how much financial pain George Soros, Jeff Beazos, and the shareholders of the other publicly traded media outlets can tolerate.
I hope this includes a public apology run in the same manner that they defamed him with on top of the hour during every broadcast for one week minimum and an admission of wrongdoing.
Nick Sandmann plans to use the money to attend a small private college in Connecticut. Which he purchased, thereby making it extremely unlikely that he will ever flunk out. Oh, and that grumpy Indian fellow? He’s out on his ass, along with the faculty of the entire womens’ and minorities studies departments.
@ joe6pak JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 5:41 PM
That horse left the barn the second they retained L Lin Wood to represent their interests
This frees them up to go after the others:
Lawyers Representing Covington Catholic High School Student Nick Sandmann Send Letters to Over 50 Personalities and Organizations – Lawsuits a Possibility
https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/02/05/lawyers-representing-covington-catholic-high-school-student-nick-sandmann-send-letters-to-over-50-personalities-and-organizations-lawsuits-a-possibility/amp/
This should take any financial pressure off of the family which will allow Wood to slowly tighten the noose around the neck of the rest of the guilty. This likely takes the impetus to settle with anyone else off the table giving Wood no incentive to recommend settling the rest of the cases for anything substantially less than the demand.
Cable bundling is the only reason these leftist networks exist. When real choice in programming comes along, their revenue stream will dry up.
From Tim: “…and an admission of wrongdoing.”
I’ve never seen this with a settlement. In fact, no admission is often demanded by the defendant.
Good for Nick. That greasy toothless injun is an azzhole.
Wyatt (I P) Jerk for the win!
But wait! He’s not done yet. LOL!
Also, isn’t Nunes suing CNN, too?
😀
Lowell, I’m not a lawyer but I did save $150 on my car insurance.😉 Wishful thinking I guess.
Maybe George Zimmerman can take NBC to court for editing the 911 call, Let’s make this a twofer.
Good news.
I would buy the house right next door to Zucker, owner of CNN.
Then I would buy the house next to his other property(s)…
Then I’d buy very expensive speakers or maybe a nice Marshall amp, BLAST ‘Ride of the Valkyries’
Hey, why isn’t NYTs on that list? Going for the deepest pockets, I guess, huh.
Go Nick!
There has been an uptick in the number of good news articles since Trump has become our president.
Winning!
If the settlement wasn’t high enough to make the stock holders fire the CEO or at least a large number of staff. It wasn’t high enough.