BREAKING: Nick Sandmann files $250 million lawsuit against Washington Post

LifeSite News ^ | February 19, 2019 | Claire Chretien

[Phil DiBasquette]

Whut? That kid shouldn’t have to work a day in his life

[rollo tomasi]

Apologies, did not realize the subject you were responding to went I went off. Everyone implicated in the group (And they were named through other means) should be compensated as well as other parties.

[rollo tomasi]

“when I went off” btw, do that on purpose sometimes

[reasonisfaith]

Sounds like a smart 11 year old.

What wapo didn’t understand was there’s no limit on the value of a life.

[reasonisfaith]

So do I, welcome to the club.

[teeman8r]

plus he was almost excommunicated and kicked out of reaching heaven...

up the price to 1 trillion for the heavenly aspect of it.

[5by5]

Yes, but did Omar also apologize as requested? If not it’s game on.

[reasonisfaith]

Now you’re talking.

Make it 70 trillion and you’ve got a deal.

[Steely Tom]

Maybe so, but he’s going to re-evaluate the management when one of his companies just cost him $250M (or whatever they end up settling for).

Hey, it's all part of the game, right? He's going to lay out a couple hundred times that much for a piece of worn-out tail, so let's keep it in perspective.

But you're right, a $250 mil claim might serve to concentrate the man's mind. Maybe make him sharpen the old pencil and put on the green eye shade, take hard look at a few bottom-line items.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

$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.

Journalism needs a wakeup call. The New York Times v. Sullivan decision has made all of journalism far too comfortable and in reed of some afflicting.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Regardless of the damages paid (if any, Sullivan ruling, anyone?)

Can a minor actually be a “public figure under Sullivan? I agree with Sandmann’s lawyer that that’s impossible. (IANAL).

I took the trouble to peruse Sullivan, and although it’s a unanimous decision and unlikely to be reversed on that account, IMHO it is in sore need of being “adjusted” radically. At the time Sullivan was handed down, complaints about “bias in the media” was not a thing (give or take a complaint about “the referees” by Goldwater after the election that year).

Mr. Sullivan himself was a Southern Democrat, and on that account in bad odor in Washington and a perfect target for the Warren Court. There was no hint of the fact that since then, it has become obvious that Democrats don’t get libeled. And Republicans routinely do. So in actual fact Sullivan heavily favors the Democrats.

As we all know, “the media” is actually singular - there’s not a dime’s worth of difference among the major journalism outlets.

[trebb]

Still sends a message to them and to those who would find that amount more substantial....

[Wonder Warthog]

"$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."

Rule 1 of legal bargaining.....initially shoot for much more than you expect to get.

[Texan4Life]

Sandmann and the Indian and the Media

https://youtu.be/2v0TlETivsU