Posted on 07/26/2019 6:52:53 PM PDT by Magnatron
A federal judge in Kentucky Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit filed against The Washington Post by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann and his family over the paper's reporting of an incident between the young man and a Native American man this past January in Washington.
The lawsuit, which was filed in February, sought $250 million in damages and accused the Post of practicing "a modern-day form of McCarthyism" by targeting Sandmann and "using its vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory print and online articles ... to smear a young boy who was in its view an acceptable casualty in their war against the president."
Sandmann became the focus of outrage after a video of him standing face-to-face with a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, while wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat surfaced and rapidly spread online. Sandmann was one of a group of Covington students attending the anti-abortion March for Life in Washington, D.C., while Phillips was attending the Indigenous Peoples' March on the same day.
In a 36-page ruling, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman noted that the Post never mentioned Sandmann by name in its initial coverage of the incident, referring only to groups of "hat wearing teens." Bertelsman added that "the words used contain no reflection upon any particular individual" and thus could not be constituted as defamation. The judge also ruled that the newspaper used language that was "loose, figurative," and "rhetorical hyperbole" which is protected by the First Amendment.
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Check the flight logs for the Lolita Express.
They tried to ruin his life with their lies. The Post needs to come clean and make amends.
Translation:
83 year old judge... What a shame... I'm only 75 and I have trouble keeping track of my hearing aids, glasses, teeth and remembering to zip my pants, or even if I have any on before I leave the house... I can't even begin to imagine what I'll be like at 83...
I sure as heck wouldn't want to be responsible for making decisions about other people's future...
When the Deep State and Dems slander decent people like the Covington ones, silences conservatives on Facebook and Twitter accounts,demonetizes them,sends Antifa to make sure no one dares come out for a public rally or to show support for President Trump, allows tens of thousands of gang members and unassimilating illegals to vote and to go on welfare,and threatens their gun rights and freedom of speech-——then the normal outlets for expression have been closed.
This leaves the alternative.
Progression of similar trend:
In the 1950s folk singing young people tried to sing and play acoustical instruments in Washington Square Park in New York. They were billy clubbed and arrested (no permit, etc).
In 1965 young people tried to get into overcrowded music clubs and crowded the sidewalk and the street outside and it resulted in billy clubs and mass arrests chronicled in the song by Stephen Stills For What Its Worth and a book Riot On Sunset Strip by Domenic Priore. They looked like the Beach Boys-—no beards, short hair, nice pants and shirts.
That all seems tame , doesn’t it? Later, Berkley Free Speech Movement,SDS,1968 Dem. convention riots and the bombs set off by the Weather Underground (Bill Ayres,et al.)
I think the Deep State and Dems are overconfident they can handle the 2021 version if things go south. Working within the system may seem quaint by then.
The official case documents, including the briefs and oral argument transcripts can be downloaded from: https://ecf.kyed.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?288357018891502-L_1_0-1
Appeal or not: His lawyer is going after much more than one “news” organization.
I am pleased the family is going to appeal.
I hope that is true.
Wish them good luck.
Not sure you're not being sarcastic but I'm in my 60s and have already noticed a decline. Trump's high energy amazes and impresses me.
This Commie weasel in a black dress proves how important that voting for Constitutional candidates is.
But of course, the courts are so packed with liberal judges that it’s become a bad joke.
They only plastered their faces all over the place, and everyone knows those honkeys all look alike.
Appeal.
The US Congress just tried to impeach Trump because of something Trump wrote on Twitter.
Your government no longer works for you.
If I was a liberal in 2019, I’d be laughing and shitting on everyone too. :)
Your government has never worked for you. The only difference in this government and any other is they have always allowed the citizens to prosper as long as they prosper more. If they fail to prosper then watch out.
Sorry folks, I thought it was weak case of slander from the start. On the up side, much of the media had to show the student(s) were not bad guys harassing a Native American.
AGE MATTERS...
This judge is 83 years old...another Robert Mueller..wandering in the woods, lost and mentally gone...
If there was a photo of Sandmann and the Indian attached to the story, then there was defamation. Stupid assed judge.
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