by Chris Black
At least he already settled with CNN and the WaPo, and though it wasn’t public, presumably ended up with a few million.
It was actually surprising that some of the outlets went to court and some settled.
Quite frankly, I don’t understand how a court is able to bunch these all together and dismiss them.
Sandmann was obviously defamed; they called him a racist and claimed he was harassing that drunken Indian slob, when in fact the reverse was true.
For me, the funniest thing was when the media kept calling the Indian a “Vietnam vet”, okay, maybe he fought for the VC.
Nick Sandmann lost his appeal in the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to sue mainstream media outlets for libel for their reporting on his 2019 encounter at the March for Life with leftist activist Nathan Phillips.
Sandmann, who was only a 16-year-old at the time of the encounter, settled his suits against CNN and The Washington Post in 2020 and settled with NBC in December 2021.
Defendants in this case include The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News (owned by Disney), and Gannett, which owns local newspapers across the country.
Judge Jane Stranch, an Obama appointee, wrote the majority opinion which Biden appointee Judge Stephanie Davis joined. Judge Richard Griffin, an appointee of George W. Bush, dissented.