Posted on 07/26/2019 3:24:04 PM PDT by Coronal
A federal judge dismissed Friday the $25 million defamation lawsuit filed against the Washington Post by Kentucky teen Nicholas Sandmann over the newspaper’s coverage of his viral encounter with an elderly Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge William O. Bertelsman found that activist Nathan Phillips may have been wrong when he said he was “blocked” by the teen and not allowed to “retreat,” but that such statements represented opinion protected by the First Amendment.
“And The Post is not liable for publishing these opinions, for the reasons discussed in this Opinion,” said the 36-page ruling.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
So now reporters aren’t responsible when they out and out lie?
This old Carter appointed buzzard wouldn’t know the First Amendment if it bit him on the arse. A real, bottomfeeding retard.
On October 11, 1979, Bertelsman was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 26, 1979, and received his commission the next day. He served as Chief Judge from 1991 to 1998, assuming senior status on February 1, 2001.[1]
File the case in a different court then and get a different judge, have that one issue a different ruling, and go on about yo bidnis just like the Dems do.
DISGRACE!! The WAPO and the NYT RUIED this kid!
“William Odis Bertelsman is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He joined the court in 1979 after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter. Bertelsman is currently serving on senior status.”
So what we have here is another Carter-appointed Capo for Communism.
““If what was done to Nicholas is not legally actionable, then no one is safe,” Mr. Sandmann said.”
No one is safe with the “judges” this country has.
Nope, not unless they do it with constitutional malice. That's why Justice Thomas thinks the Court should take another look at NY Times v. Sullivan.
83 year old Jimmy carter Judge.
Appeal. Force the comPost to be punished.
William O. Bertelsman is a judicial terrorist.
So-called Judge William O. Bertelsman is not an Obama judge, but he is a Jimmy Carter judge. Democrats only appoint corrupt scum. The left is pure evil.
He served one year in the Army?
So you can call anyone a racist in your newspaper and it’s not defamation.
This suit will be reinstated!!!!
Totally bogus judis-lation from unelected judge.
The kid as an individual, has first amendment rights to not be labeled. The corporate propaganda factory injured his character mortally and irreparably.
What F’n judge believes wapo doesn’t have an anti-trump bias when they print 100% anti-Trump news???
What a hack.
Hey, let’s go read all of the wapo stories about bezos’ pecker picture texting!!!
Oh wait, for some reason they didn’t cover that story... I wonder why?
“A federal judge dismissed Friday the $25 million defamation lawsuit filed against the Washington Post”
“The $250 million lawsuit filed by Nick Sandmann against The Washington Post has been dismissed by a federal judge.”
Someone is off by a factor of 10.
The Post is part of the swamp. No one will be allowed to win a suit against it.
Obama appointed a bunch of gay homos to the federal bench and it will take decades to get rid of them...
It was NOT Philip’s (the Indian) OPINION that he was surrounded and felt threatened, it was his made-up lie.
You can’t use factually and demonstratively false info as ‘opinion’.
The boy’s assertion that the Indian guy intimidate him was the basis of the case, and it was not his ‘opinion’ either- it can be proven by video.
The new organization new this, and defamed the boy AND the other group by stating what they knew (or at least should have known as JOURNALISTS) to be false.
I hope they appeal.
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