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24 Jul 2020, 9:25 pm
Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann recently enjoyed a great birthday present, a settlement announcement from The Washington Post. [read post]
8 Jan 2020, 9:39 pm
Sandmann was initially portrayed by CNN and other media outlets as a MAGA-hat-wearing racist. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 1:53 pm
CNN has agreed to settle a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann earlier this month. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 10:19 am
Through their news reporting, defendants portrayed plaintiff Nicholas Sandmann as a racist against Native Americans. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 4:54 pm
Nicholas Sandmann settled his defamation action against the Washington Post this week, and he is not done yet. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 11:43 am
There is an interesting fight brewing between the lawyers for Covington Catholic High School student Nichola Sandmann and CNN. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 4:37 pm
Ky.): These five libel cases arise out of events that occurred in Washington, D.C. on January 18, 2019 and the ensuing extensive media coverage of plaintiff Nicholas Sandmann's encounter with Nathan Phillips. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 11:03 am
CNN and the Washington Post settled with Nicholas Sandmann over his libel claim rather than attempt to defend their reporting on the March for Life confrontation with activist Nathan Phillips, and especially their subsequent defamatory commentary even after the full context of that confrontation became clear. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 3:03 pm
Today, Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry filed their first lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 11:22 am
Lin Wood, who has represented Richard Jewell, Nicholas Sandmann, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, and now Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, was locked for supposedly violating Twitter’s terms of service. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 10:13 am
Bertelsman dismissed the suit, stating that the Post's coverage was protected as free speech and rejecting Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann's argument that the newspaper implied inaccurately that Sandmann had behaved in a menacing or violent way. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 12:52 pm
On Friday, a federal judge in Kentucky tossed Nicholas Sandmann’s defamation case against the Washington Post. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 5:45 am
”The suit was filed by Sandmann’s parents, Ted and Julie, on Nicholas’s behalf in U.S. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 8:39 am
A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on Friday dismissed Nicholas Sandmann’s $250 million defamation complaint against the Washington Post, citing First Amendment protections. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 10:58 am
A lawyer for Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, has vowed to take additional legal action against CNN and the Post for allegedly breaching confidentiality agreements under the settlements they made in the initial lawsuits. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 2:22 pm
Settling the typical defamation is problematic from a First Amendment standpoint--the court loses an opportunity to declare First Amendment values and the prospect of that even a nuisance settlement (which partisans will pitch as more, see Nicholas Sandmann) will incentivize new suits. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 10:55 am
I saw and liked her post on Prawfsblawg about this, and she graciously agreed to let me reprint it here: Nicholas Sandmann settled his defamation action against the Washington Post this week, and he is not done yet. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 5:58 pm
District Judge William Bertelsman noted that the Post never mentioned Sandmann by name in its initial coverage of the incident, referring only to groups of 'hat wearing teens.' Bertelsman added that 'the words used contain no reflection upon any particular individual' and thus could not be constituted as defamation. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 1:09 pm
For some, the turning point was seeing Catholic high school student Nicholas Sandmann slandered as a racist MAGA troll by a coterie of mainstream media stenographers and a bipartisan commentariat class. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 9:53 am
Late last month, the family of Nicholas Sandmann filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post seeking $250 million in damages (roughly the amount Jeff Bezos paid to purchase the newspaper in 2013). [read post]
