Posted on 12/17/2021 6:38:43 PM PST by BeauBo
Oh, and to jar your belief back to reality, here are the III statistics for the average insurance claims:
https://www.iii.org/table-archive/21040
Pay close attention to the averages for bodily injury claims. Notice that they aren’t ANYTHING approaching the “millions” that people think they get from car crashes.
:-)
Not talking millions on car insurance claims. My comments were about much lower in the same range you think Sandmann got in the settlement (50-100K)..... and you can go back and look at Richard Jewell’s settlement with NBC of $500K to see that $50k now is just ridiculous...
And let's not forget Flynn.
NBC now stands for Nicolas Be Collectin.
Millions.....not thousands.
I believe he got plenty also....way over the paltry $50K-$100K the poster to whom I was responding claimed to us ‘laymen’...
No, that's the people here who fund Comcast and pretend they have no choice.
Wonder why he recommended Kyle sue if he got peanuts. Hard to find a jury that loves the media. Remember that.
He has to file suit first. Then he has to win. Nothing is a given.
Lot of truth in that. A friend's daughter was in an accident - other car ran a light, plenty of witnesses, open and shut case, fortunately no injuries. He had to file a complaint with the state insurance commissioner before the other driver's company would negotiate seriously.
From the defendants side, confidentiality keeps the public from knowing how much they were sanctioned which makes them look bad. From the plaintiffs standpoint it preserves their privacy.
Trump is the king of NDAs.
As for awards...if it was me I'd tell MSLSD,CNN,The Amazon Compost,the NY Slimes,etc,etc "I'm suing each and every one of you for $100 million. But I just might be willing to quietly accept $1.25 million from *each* of you.
Civil suits are a whole different world from criminal trials. The rules for evidence are different, there is no hung jury, a unanimous verdict isn't needed to win. Assuming Rittenhouse is going to sue over charges he was a white supremacist then he's got to prove he isn't. That is not a given. The prosecution claimed to have evidence of white supremacist beliefs that they wanted to introduce at the criminal trial and the judge denied it. Whatever they had will be available to the defense in a civil trial, and will be plastered all over TV for the world to see. All they will have to do is get two or three jurors on their side and they win. Rittenhouse and his attorneys will have to give this a lot of thought before proceeding. And it appears they're doing just that.
And then comes the videos from MSLSD,etc. We'll see,among *many*other things, Banjo Joe's little piece of fluff labeling Kyle,an anonymous, private citizen,as being worse than Heinrich Himmler himself.
Which is all great except that none of that applies to the charges he was a white supremacist. Those relate to the claims he had his picture taken with Proud Boys, photos where he supposedly gave a white supremacist hand sign of some sort, claims he was picked up at a Florida airport by a Proud Boys member, and on and no. The defense will try to show guilt by association. Rittenhouse will have his explanations but it will depend on whether a jury believes him or not.
Well NBC, I hope the settlement was large enough to really hurt.
Because those other media firms also have a vested interested in not disclosing settlements in general.
If it were nuisance value wouldn’t the defendant want to release it?
The cases never make it to the jury. That’s the problem. The vast majority of the case gets dismissed even before discovery. That’s the problem.
Sandmann filed 33 counts against the Washington Compost. The Judge dismissed all but 3 before discovery even began.
The Flynns just sued CNN and the majority of their defamation claims were dismissed, only their false light claim is allowed to move forward.
NY Times v Sullivan gives the media enormous power and protection and makes them almost untouchable. It helped create the media monster that exists today. If that case and it’s progeny was overruled, the media would be a lot more careful about how they act.
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