Posted on 02/19/2019 4:41:26 PM PST by ebb tide
$250 million is pocket change to the WP’s owner.
hehehe couldn’t happen to a better rag except maybe NY times..
Seems like there is another posting on this topic.
Kids can sue?
I will wait until the third posting before I read the article.
Great news, not fake news.
Probably about 2% of Bezos’ wealth - after the divorce takes half. But, will send a message to the other rags, that can’t take that hit.
Stinking elitist bigots.
Hope he quickly becomes one of the top 1%. May he share it with those who were also named negatively in the news.
Nope. No one is worse than the WP. Not the NYT’s and not even CNN.
Here is another story about it.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43694/breaking-nick-sandmanns-lawyers-file-massive-ryan-saavedra
They might reach a settlement but it will be nowhere near 250 million.
I'm pulling for the full amount. Make them think twice before using Twitter as a valid news source.
IIRC Bezos paid $250 mil. for the WaPo when he bought it.
$250 million is the cost of the whole company. And there is no way that WaPo did $250 million in damages to Mr. Sandmann. This is just an abuse of the system and , frankly, hurts his case in the court of public opinion. The defendant acted badly and deserves to pay out damages, but it shouldn’t be a lottery ticket for the plaintiff.
No reason Bozos doesn’t have $250M laying around. After all, he doesn’t pay income taxes.
We can be assured that Bezos is going to be royally p!ssed.
With this and his being chased out of NYC by its Liberals, one can bet that Bezos is having a good long chat with himself about just how good liberalism is for business.
Regardless of the damages paid (if any, Sullivan ruling, anyone?) The standard of having a confidentiality agreement to keep the proceedings out of the public eye should be done away with, permanently.
It won’t happen, lawyers will never allow themselves to be held to some sort of ethical standard.
The 250 mil is just a standard technique to settle for a much lower amount, to be protected from the public eye by a confidentiality agreement.
How did the law and the practice of it get so royally screwed up?
Excellent strategery
Bezos will settle.
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