Posted on 11/26/2019 4:55:24 PM PST by marshmallow
November 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life teen Nick Sandmann’s defamation suit against NBCUniversal for NBC News’ coverage of him and his classmates at this year’s March for Life can proceed, according to a federal judge, though not every aspect of the lawsuit was cleared.
Immediately after the January March for Life in Washington, D.C., the press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky harassing Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, outside the Lincoln Memorial. But additional extended video and firsthand accounts soon revealed that Phillips was the one who waded into the group waiting for its bus and decided to beat a drum inches from Sandmann’s face, while the boys had merely performed school cheers in hopes of drowning out racist taunts from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites fringe group.
As additional video came to light and many journalists and other public figures quickly deleted their snap condemnations of the students, while some have either tried to keep the original narrative alive or refused to unequivocally retract or apologize for their initial claims, leading to various lawsuits on behalf of the boys.
Among the targets is NBCUniversal, against which attorneys representing Sandmann are seeking $275 million in damages for its role in feeding a “false narrative.” On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge William Bertelsman dismissed some aspects of the suit but allowed discovery to proceed on the network’s coverage claiming that Sandmann “blocked” Phillips from leaving, the The Washington Times reported.
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Maybe this will bring some justice for someone for something good!
Wait, what? Didn’t it get dismissed a few months ago?
Maybe the judge should award him ownership of MSNBC
Nice.
Put sand in their gears.
I haven’t forgotten what a snide b!tch Savannah Guthrie was to him - a grown woman treating a boy like that - disgusting. I hope NBC has to shell out an enormous chunk of money to settle this.
I hope the young man collects and collects big.
Turn over the keys to the Post in lieu of cash...
Nick is suing for something of value in this matter, not ownership of MSNBC.
Show Nick the money!
Judge Thomas has railed about the consequencal and restriction slander precedent of NYT v Sullivan, still controlling. That leaves victims with virtually no recourse, but worse, it encourages further lies bt evil publishers. Best of the potential claims would be Trump himself, with any sanity in standards
“I haven’t forgotten what a snide b!tch Savannah Guthrie was to him - a grown woman treating a boy like that - disgusting. I hope NBC has to shell out an enormous chunk of money to settle this.”
The issue here is that Sandman was a MINOR. The bar is a lot lower. The bastards will try to delay this until he hits middle age, has a pot and is balding for a jury trial. His best bet is to push now and push hard.
If only this had happened in Europe. A good chunk of the MSM management and some of our worst propagandists would be in the hole by now. There are very harsh rules about publishing even so much as a recognizable still image of a minor without their permission.
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