Sandman is not a public figure.
So defamation law will apply.
I guess that the suit is asking for dmages as well as punative damages because of the provable malice involved.
We all should be wearing the red hats.
$200 million against the Compost and CNN “to deter them from committing this again”. Sounds a little light. Bezos and AT&T have deep enough pockets, should have been a round Billion each.