Posted on 12/18/2021 2:50:36 AM PST by lowbridge
Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann announced Friday that he settled a $275 million defamation lawsuit against NBC.
Neither party publicized the terms of the settlement. However, Sandmann asked for $275 million in damages in his lawsuit against NBC Universal and MSNBC.
“At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement,” Sandmann tweeted. “The terms are confidential.
”NBC is the third corporate media organization to settle with Sandmann after he and his classmates were accused of mocking Native American activist Nathan Phillips during last January’s March for Life event. Sandmann was wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat while he stood close to Phillips with an apparent smirk on his face that was widely noted and mocked.Many in the media painted Sandmanmn as an aggressive racist who initiated the conflict with Phillips. However, an independent investigation concluded there was “no evidence that the students performed a ‘Build the wall’ chant.”
In the days after the media’s attacks on Sandmann, witness cell phone footage showed that Phillips initially approached Sandmann. Footage also showed that a group of Black Hebrew Israelites confronted both Sandmann’s and Phillips’ groups well before the two were face to face.
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ALL THE BETTER!
🎵Mr. Sandmann, please drop your suit.
Please go away now, We’ll give you some loot...🎵
CC
When you press for damages, shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose, and your opponent may screw up and actually meet your demands. It’s like listing a house.
CC
I tend to think you are correct....it’s probably higher than a million but probably doesn’t go past the 10-million point. Had it been 100-million....a high profile person (or two) would have been chopped-up and fired for allowing things to go this wild.
Even if it were for only 20% {and I don't believe that they'd settle that low} that is still over $50 Million.
Even 5% is over $10 million.
What number are you thinking?
As soon as we received our Startlink Dishey, we cut the Xfinity cable.
Never looked back!
Sandman has never smirked. I saw an interview with him and he has a bad overbite. He keeps his mouth closed because he is self conscious of his crooked teeth.
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.
THAT is just a start right?
275 million... govt takes 175 million and the lawyers... 75 million... 25 million ain’t bad... next, CNAin’t.
My guess is $2.75 million plus or minus $1 million.
Ten percent of the the original suit request.
However, the wild card is punitive damages. If the party causing injury believes a jury error be sympathetic to the injured, the amount settled for could be higher.
Sorry, meant to say ten percent wouldn’t be unreasonable.
It looks like I’m saying 10% of $275 million is $2.75 million. One percent would be the absolute floor, I’d imagine.
It probably doesn’t exist, but it would be enlightening to see a list of media/news organizations based on how much they have paid out in libel suits due to their lies and slander. I bet I could guess the top three.
Good for Nicholas! Now he doesn’t have to worry about college tuition, if he should choose to go that route.
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.
7-11
Court judgements are subject to income tax only to the extent that they represent lost earnings, which, for a teenager who wasn’t earing anything to begin with, would be nil in this case.
Media Jeopardy
“I’ll take NBC for $275 million, Alex.”
What is 10% of 275?
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