[StAnDeliver]

"The essence of a defamation action is the collection of damages for the ongoing damage to one’s reputation."

Exactly so, and Chief Attention Whore, committing a degree of assault, will likely skate, while MSM deep pockets are emptied on a minor precisely because he is a minor, at a high-powered Catholic prep school with a bright future ahead of him.

Here's hoping that the lawyer is smart enough to privately inquire among the admission execs at the Top 100 US universities as to whether their views of these Covington Catholic boys are jaundiced now -- there's your freaking damages. That's a million or two per person.

[j.havenfarm]

Thank you there, Chief Justice. I’ll put my 28 years as a member of the bar, and hundreds of civil lawsuits, in the drawer where they belong. We wouldn’t want to consult the law or experience in analyzing the case.