So this is the end times for the Times - finally taken out by an Amazonian tribe. Except that some judge who is addicted to getting his jollies by reading the deranged falsehoods of the NY Times won’t allow it.
End of Times? No. As I often bemoan on this forum, the dollar numbers attached to these lawsuits is pulled right out of the air by the lawyers, and don’t necessarily have any relation to reality. The problem for the tribe in this case is the lack of damages. In a defamation case a jury is required to put a dollar value on the damage to one’s reputation. If defamation is proven one is entitled to at least nominal damages of $1 to vindicate one’s reputation. But in this case, what are the tribe’s damages. They’re remote. I infer they have little interaction with other. Are other tribes refusing to trade with them because of this? Are members of the tribe trying to get jobs in town and can’t because of these allegations ? Neither seems likely