The Post Millennial: The revenge of Covington high school students continues. Just one day after CNN came to a settlement in their defamation lawsuit with Nick Sandmann, lawyer Robert Barnes announced he was suing Reza Aslan, the disgraced former CNN host, for a minimum of $135,000 in damages.
Reza Aslan’s tweet of January 19, 2019 features an image of Sandmann and poses the question: “Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” MORE
“Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” Why yes I have. Look in the mirror asshole.
Such sweet revenge! WWIINNNNIINNGG!!
Go, Nick, go!
Great! The CNN settlement is a really big deal. It establishes the fact that CNN’s lawyers, who I imagine are pretty good, realized that if the case had gone to trial they’d have lost. Sometimes companies settle before trial simply to cut costs: they don’t think they’d lose, but the legal costs would have been greater than any award to the plaintiff.
Given the nature of this case, I don’t think the settlement was to save money. CNN had a lot riding on this, and they folded. What this means is that the remaining defendants are now on notice that they’ve likely got losing cases, too.
WONDERFUL!
Isn’t Aslan a cannibal?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/10/reza-aslan-criticised-for-documentary-on-cannibalistic-hindus
So that’s what the C in CNN stands for.
Well, good, but sadly it’s just a drop in the bucket as far as the Chicoms are concerned. It’s just a drop in the bucket of the whole propaganda campaign… just the cost of doing business.
Good! Maybe the corporate beancounterz will force their jump the gun, rush to conclusions “journalists” to actually do their damn jobs and FACT CHECK before saying, printing or tweeting their BS
Git ’em. Sic ’em. Git every last one of the scumbags.
When given the chance to retract and apologize they declined. That gesture not provided is what’s costing them.
We used to call cnn then clinton news network. We never dreamed it was the chi-comm news network.
What treason.
@Uncle Al: CNN may have settled to avoid discovery. They don’t want the public to know what goes on behind the scenes.
Uncle Al,
More likely they were simply terrified of discovery. Having their entrails laid out in front of a judge is to be avoided at all costs.
The rest of the miscreant corporate slanderers will settle also.
As for the individual douches, they will not have the settlement insurance the corporate bigwigs have.
Those assholes are gonna be hurting.
@Cynic, @Cisco Kid – Good point.
I wonder whether the Judge or Jury can award punitive damages in excess of whatever the plaintiff asked for? Trump has been getting a lot of actually qualified people on the bench over the last few years that does not bode well for Aslan. If Warren also looks to settle or even fight it in court it may well mean the end of her political life. It’s a good thing.
“I wonder whether the Judge or Jury can award punitive damages in excess of whatever the plaintiff asked for?”
We did in the last jury duty I pulled.
Plaintiff asked for an amount ranging from $90,000 to $180,000 as punishment beyond making the plaintiff whole for losses suffered.
We really were pissed at the defendant. A security company that hired a convicted car thief without ever doing a background check on him. They put him as night security at a car dealership. He proceeded to steal a car that was in for service the very first weekend of employment.
We awarded her the small stuff she asked for that reimbursed expenses she wouldn’t have had had otherwise – about $3,400. But when it came to the punitive figure we put it at $350,000. Down from $500,000 one juror wanted.
We first had to find them guilty of malice to even get to the punitive stuff. It was only a tiny stretch to say they cared more about money than their customers.
This case here is much clearer there was malice on their part.
If I were on the jury I would award enough to close them down for good – or at least make him a very very wealthy person. And for the same reason we stomped the security company – to give a warning to others to not do what they did.
Smirking Bill Maher said he’d like to wipe the smirk off Nick Sandmann’s face.
Who’s smirking now?