If it is a quick settlement, it’s a nuisance reward. So any body settled with Sandmann quickly paid about $50,000, give or take. The alternative would be to drive up lawyers bills, which would eat up the settlement.
With NBC, it must considerably more since this one went on quite a while. Probably upwards of half a million, or so.
I’m glad he’s being set up for a free education and few million for retirement, if he invests his debt free income properly.
Sandman had nothing to lose and his lawyers were working on contingency. They did not settle for peanuts. It was definitely somewhere in the 8 figure range.
A lot of law suits also award legal fees to the winner. I would think this would be settled for around $1 million to $3 million. The real win is no admission of being culpable of shoddy journalism by the news agency.
Sandmann apparently sued CNN and the Washington Post for $250 million EACH and they both settled. While the settlement amount has not been disclosed, I’m guessing it is at least in the millions.