Posted on 12/17/2021 6:38:43 PM PST by BeauBo
Covington Catholic graduate Nicholas Sandmann says he reached another settlement with a member of news media, this time with NBC.
Sandmann, a 19-year-old from Kentucky, announced on social media he had reached the settlement. The settlement with NBC marks his third settlement with a news outlet following CNN and the Washington Post.
"At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement," Sandmann wrote Friday. "The terms are confidential."
Documents filed Friday in federal court in Kentucky showed both sides agreed to dismiss the case without a judgment from the court, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Sandmann became the center of attention after a viral confrontation between him and a Native American man named Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after attending events associated with the March for Life with classmates from Covington Catholic. Sandmann, wearing a "MAGA" hat, smiled at Phillips, an attendee of the Indigenous Peoples March who sang and played a drum in front of the teenager.
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He probably got far, far less. Probably in the tens of thousands, not millions.
Here’s a good write up on what reality probably is:
The media has way too much protection with NY Times v. Sullivan.
After he hits ten million bucks he can start demanding apologies from his next mass media outlet target.
;-)
Because the defendants might not settle if the amount is known. If it’s a large amount and it’s made public, everyone with half a case will sue, and the defendant takes a major hit to its credibility.
If it were a trivial amount, the defendant would get the news out one way or the other, dismissing the settlement as getting rid of a nuisance suit otherwise without merit.
I wish confidential settlements and NDAs were illegal. Companies just use them to cover up their bad behavior.
Bring on Rittenhouse vs. ...........
For $50,000, why would Sandman agree to confidentiality?
NBC can pay the bills just from Sunday night football
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-oct-3-2021-1235025233/
Because he gets money. That’s always part of a settlement.
Lay people don’t understand just how much protection the media has under Sullivan. It’s very, very difficult to prevail in a libel claim against the media.
Faced with long odds given the case law, if he were offered 50K or 100k to go away and keep quiet, it’s a no brainer.
For him, it’s a good pay day. 50K from CNN and then 50k from the Washington Compost and then 50K from NBC, with more to come.
He may end up with half a million when it’s all said and done (but his lawyers will take 40% of it).
However, that money, properly invested, will make him a millionaire later on in life.
But the stories of him winning 100s of Millions? Nope.
That’s copium fantasy.
Why is it your business? Were you wronged somehow?
He’s one rich kid.
You are attempting to apply normal cases to one that has become a national PR fiasco for the companies being sued. He got a lot more than 50k.
The future Mrs. Sandmann is a lucky lady.
The media love confidential settlements because they all stipulate that tamount can’t be disclosed but more importantly that you promise to never ever say anything bad about them.
I hope he soaked each one of them for tens of millions.
Right in his face, Asher.
“If it were a trivial amount, the defendant would get the news out one way or the other, dismissing the settlement as getting rid of a nuisance suit otherwise without merit.”
I wonder if the Sandmanns have had any major lifestyle changes from what one would expect from their known income level.
FReegards
Hmm. I hope that is wrong, and that we are soon shown a photo of Sandmann’s palatial new home.
I hope that with was in the hundreds of millions.
Pretty soon, you can use the libs own money to start your own conservative social media site.
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