It's horrible what the MSM and unhinged libs did to those boys...


But I'm going to savor every update on these suits like they are election night tears.

They deserve everything that's coming to them and more. Shoulda picked on "Bubba" for wearing a MAGA hat, not teenage kids. Bring it!

I don't expect a resolution on this legal action soon. I also assume it's not going to get a lot of coverage, come here for updates.

I saw that segment and he makes a very compelling case that its not about the First Amendment, but its about power

that will resonate with a lot of people

I hope they get the right jury

Lin Wood files against CNN

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e4cf...%20v.%20CNN.pdf?dl=0

$275 mil

75 mil compensatory

200 mil punitive

I hope this gains traction - of course CNN won't be saying much

but I hope it scares the shit out of the rest of the MSM swap dwellers in that the day of reckoning is at hand and we will start to go after them and take no prisoners

they're domestic enemies of the country and need to be treated as such

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...a-maccallum-n2543033

A lawyer for Nick Sandmann said CNN had a chance to retract their original damning reports, but they did not respond within the timeline mandated by Kentucky law.

This won't end with CNN. McMurtry said they plan to file a suit "every few weeks or month." They have "at least 10 top targets in the media and individuals," including NBC, the AP, HBO and Kathy Griffin.

quote:

Kathy Griffin

Curious what amount this ho gets slapped with.

Lin Wood:

BOY vs GIANTS: They Messed With the Wrong Kid!
Covington Student, Nicholas Sandmann, Is Taking On the Goliath Corporations that Smeared His Good Name and Endangered His Life and Future.
Please Watch. Like. Retweet.

video attached to the tweet:

https://youtu.be/H48UX7k2F5M

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ap-...c-student-co-counsel

The Associated Press and television networks NBC and HBO could be the next three entities sued over their handling of the viral video featuring Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, his co-counsel told Fox News on Tuesday.

Todd McMurtry revealed the potential upcoming legal targets during an interview with Fox News just one day after a massive $275 million suit was filed against CNN due to its coverage of the January confrontation between Sandmann -- wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat -- and Native American activist, Nathan Phillips.

“Our plan is to come out with an additional lawsuit every few weeks or months. We have to issue opportunities for these news organizations to provide retractions,” McMurtry told the "Todd Starnes Radio Show." "But right now we're looking very carefully at NBC, AP, HBO. And again, HBO is primarily because they carry Bill Maher's disgusting comments about Nicholas Sandmann. So those probably are the next three defendants."


Maher referred to Sandmann as a “little pr---” during the Jan. 27 episode of his show, “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

"I don't blame the kid, the smirk-face kid," Maher said. "I blame lead poisoning and bad parenting. And, oh yeah, I blame the f---ing kid, what a little pr---. Smirk face, like that's not a d--- move at any age to stick your face in this elderly man.”


Maher then made a crude joke about the abuse of children that has taken place in the Catholic Church, saying: “You know, I don't spend a lot of time, I must tell you, around Catholic school children, but I do not get what Catholic priests see in these kids.”

In addition to the CNN suit, Sandmann’s legal team also launched legal action against the Washington Post.

McMurtry told Fox News the goal of the suits is to change the “mainstream media’s” behavior.

”Clearly what we want to do is stop them from behaving in a way that discards all journalistic integrity,” he said. “Here they didn’t investigate. They took something off of Twitter and put it right out into the media.”

The suit against CNN charges that the network "elevated false, heinous accusations of racist conduct" against Sandmann and failed to adhere to "well-established journalistic standards and ethics."

The lawsuit against The Washington Post accuses that outlet of practicing "a modern-day form of McCarthyism" by targeting Sandmann and "using its vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory print and online articles...to smear a young boy who was, in its view, an acceptable casualty in their war against the president."

The Post has since published an editor’s note admitting subsequent information either contradicted or failed to confirm accounts relayed in its initial article about the video. The editor’s note was not satisfactory to Sandmann’s legal team, however.

Sandmann, a junior at Covington in Kentucky, became a target for outrage after the January video surfaced. The 16-year-old was one of a group of students from Covington attending the anti-abortion March for Life in Washington, D.C., while Phillips was attending the Indigenous Peoples' March on the same day.

Sandmann and the Covington students were initially accused of initiating the confrontation, but other videos and the students' own statements showed that they were verbally accosted by a group of black street preachers who were shouting insults at them and the Native Americans. Sandmann and Phillips have both said they were trying to defuse the situation.

Lin Wood: Excellent example of how responsible members of mainstream media should retract, correct, & apologize to Nicholas Sandmann.

https://twitter.com/llinwood

Fox40

A Note To Our Viewers About Our Covington Coverage

FOX40 strives to report fairly and accurately on the news that matters to our viewers — local, state. national and world. For news outside northern California, we depend on our national news partners with staffs of reporters, photojournalists and editors who track, report and analyze the latest developments. We believe this serves our viewers well. Occasionally it does not, and mistakes can result. We try to tell our viewers when mistakes happen, and pledge to use our best efforts to keep them from happening again.

On January 19-21, 2019, FOX40 aired reports of an encounter between high school students from Covington, Kentucky and Native American activists in front of the Lincoln Memorial. News coverage resulted not from conventional reporting on the scene, but from a short viral video showing a Native American elder, Nathan Phillips, and a 16-year-old Covington student, Nicholas Sandmann, locking eyes on one another as Phillips beat a drum and chanted, at very close range. The student remained silent, occasionally smiling as he gazed at Phillips. News reports highlighted the fact Sandmann and some of his classmates wore red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps. They were in the nation’s capital for an annual rally against abortion. Phillips, visiting from Michigan, was attending an Indigenous People’s rally. The students were awaiting buses to take them home.

The story drew angry comments in social media, and from politicians and celebrities. Early reports also contained unverified statements about the students’ conduct, including statements by Phillips that they had chanted “Build That Wall,” and made remarks offensive to Native Americans. Though several videos have come to light since the incident, none of them contains evidence of hostile remarks by the students.

Our reports contained other remarks which, after videos emerged and both sides were heard from, proved unsubstantiated or untrue. Sandmann was accused of blocking Phillips’ path so he could not climb the steps of the Memorial to pray. Students were accused of assembling in the Indigenous People’s space, and taunting and mocking the Native Americans. We reported the Diocese of Covington’s condemnation of the Covington Catholic High School students, a denunciation that was retracted in six days when the church admitted it had rushed to judgment. The Diocese said the students had violated religious teachings and might be expelled from school. It later apologized to the students and their families, saying they had been “bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely.”

The facts now available about this story show no evidence of taunting by the students, although several were seen doing a “tomahawk chop” while the Native Americans chanted in their presence. The students’ noisy display was a school cheer, which school chaperones gave them permission to do, to drown out epithets from another group of activists at the scene. Phillips was not denied freedom of movement – he approached the student gathering and said he wanted to promote peace between the students and the other activist group that taunted them with profanity. Sandmann, for his part, professed the same motive: keeping calm, and preventing the situation from getting out of hand. His behavior, and the prompt arrival of the school buses, achieved this goal. Until the story went viral the next day.

The lion’s share of the denunciations of this event landed on the students, and the focus of attention was on Sandmann, who reportedly had bought his red cap that afternoon. Such is the result of cell phone video presented as news: it shows a small window of reality for a short burst of time. Context, which is essential in any news report, is lacking. Judgments are reached without the benefit of all or even most of the facts. It is a prescription for error, and the error was ours at FOX40.

We should have considered that the targets of this story were high school students. Though the video showed a tense faceoff between an elder and a teenager, there is no evidence either side did anything wrong, particularly not the students.

We owe an apology to the students, their families, and the face of the Covington student group, Nick Sandmann. In an effort to update our viewers on a story of significant human interest, we reported it despite a shortage of hard facts, particularly the first day. Because of the way this story came together – fueled by a viral video with no on-scene reporting by independent voices — we lost sight of our standard of fairness, context and accuracy. This is especially serious when the groundswell of misinformed anger fell on a group of teenagers who never sought the attention, let alone the abusive treatment, they got. They deserved better, and so did our viewers.

NBC it is

https://www.washingtontimes.co...c-teen-sues-nbc-275/

Attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann filed a $275 million lawsuit Wednesday against NBCUniversal over its coverage of the Kentucky teen, accusing the network of creating a “false narrative” driven by its “anti-Trump agenda.”

The lawsuit, the third filed by the Sandmann attorneys against major media outlets, alleged that NBC targeted the Covington Catholic High School student in its reporting on his Jan. 18 encounter with Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial.

“NBCUniversal created a false narrative by portraying the ‘confrontation’ as a ‘hate crime’ committed by Nicholas,” said the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

The lawsuit alleged that the teen was “an easy target for NBCUniversal to advance its anti-Trump agenda because he was a 16-year-old white, Catholic student who had attended the Right to Life March that day and was wearing a MAGA cap at the time of the incident which he had purchased earlier in the day as a souvenir.”

Sandmann attorneys L. Lin Wood of Atlanta and Todd V. McMurtry of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, have also sued the Washington Post for $250 million and CNN for $275 million over their coverage of the episode, and have indicated there may be more complaints.

The Post filed last month a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the newspaper’s coverage of Nicholas was “not only accurate; it was ultimately favorable to him.”

NBCUniversal did not respond immediately Wednesday to a request for comment.

The latest lawsuit alleged that NBCUniversal, through its news outlets NBC and MSNBC, “unleashed its vast corporate wealth, influence, and power against Nicholas to falsely attack him despite the fact that at the time, he was a 16-year-old high school student.”

Headlines run online by NBCUniversal outlets about the incident included, “Nathan Phillips, Native American man harassed by high schoolers, tells his story,” and “Video of teens taunting man at Indigenous Peoples March sparks outrage,” the lawsuit said.

Reap it NBC, and all of the fake news media. Intentionally lying to not only besmirch a young American, but the president he supports should have heavy repercussions.

https://www.law.com/dailyrepor...eturn=20190424200933

CNN is challenging a $275 million defamation suit stemming from its coverage of a viral tweet featuring a Kentucky teenager’s encounter with a Native American protester and the media firestorm that followed.
The cable network, headquartered in Atlanta, contended in a motion to dismiss the lawsuit by Kentucky teenager Nicholas Sandmann that the majority of allegedly defamatory statements attributed to CNN are either not about Sandmann, are statements of opinion that do not rise to the level of actionable libel, or are true.

The suit—one of three multimillion-dollar defamation claims Sandmann has brought in federal court Kentucky—sprang from media coverage of a photo of Sandmann in a face-to-face encounter with Native American protester Nathan Phillips on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last January.

CNN claimed that although Sandmann’s suit “essentially takes issue with any and every point of CNN’s reporting,” Sandmann “as a matter of law cannot show that CNN’s reports reasonably convey any false and defamatory implications about him.”

But Sandmann’s complaints against CNN, The Washington Post and NBC Universal contend that media reports subjected him to international ridicule because he is white, Catholic and was wearing a ball cap with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” The suits also depict the teen as a victim of media and cyber-bullying.

Wood said in a response to the Post’s motion that the newspaper “was obliged to use reasonable care to ensure its coverage was accurate in the first instance, especially given the magnitude of the resulting public hatred, ill will, and contempt directed at Nicholas, a minor” that Wood insisted “was forseeable” in the current “politically charged and polarized climate.”

Wood similarly argues that CNN “made Nicholas the face of evil,” even when its reporters and commentators didn’t identify the teen.

“Nicholas’s face is dominant, and he became the focus of the reporting,” Wood said. “There is no doubt that Nicholas was identified and portrayed as the face of racist misconduct.”

Wood also contended that the Post and CNN “negligently republished false and defamatory statements of third parties.”

He also said that, under Kentucky law, accurately republishing a lie is not a defense. “To the contrary, it is actionable where, as here, CNN failed to exercise reasonable care before republishing the lies and inaccurate statements,” he said.

“A simple review of the video of the incident available online would have established that the third parties were either lying or horribly uninformed or misinformed,” Wood added. “I think Nicholas’ complaint sets forth a plausible cause of action sufficient to defeat the motion to dismiss where the court must accept as true the detailed allegations in the complaint.”

just read on the Fox News site that a judge tossed the suit against the Washington Post

very sad day for Sandmann

https://www.foxnews.com/us/jud...ncoln-memorial-rally

A federal judge in Kentucky Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit filed against The Washington Post by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann and his family over the paper's reporting of an incident between the young man and a Native American man this past January in Washington.

The lawsuit, which was filed in February, sought $250 million in damages and accused the Post of practicing "a modern-day form of McCarthyism" by targeting Sandmann and "using its vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory print and online articles ... to smear a young boy who was in its view an acceptable casualty in their war against the president."

Sandmann became the focus of outrage after a video of him standing face-to-face with a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, while wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat surfaced and rapidly spread online. Sandmann was one of a group of Covington students attending the anti-abortion March for Life in Washington, D.C., while Phillips was attending the Indigenous Peoples' March on the same day.

In a 36-page ruling, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman noted that the Post never mentioned Sandmann by name in its initial coverage of the incident, referring only to groups of "hat wearing teens." Bertelsman added that "the words used contain no reflection upon any particular individual" and thus could not be constituted as defamation. The judge also ruled that the newspaper used language that was "loose, figurative," and "rhetorical hyperbole" which is protected by the First Amendment.

COVINGTON HIGH STUDENT'S LEGAL TEAM SUES WASHINGTON POST

Sandmann and the Covington students were initially accused of initiating the confrontation with Phillips, but other videos and the students' own statements showed that they were verbally accosted by a group of black street preachers who were shouting insults both at them and a group of Native Americans. Sandmann and Phillips have both said they were trying to defuse the situation.

The lawsuit claimed the Post falsely labeled Sandmann a racist by publishing articles that "falsely accused Nicholas of ... 'accost[ing]' Phillips by 'suddenly swarm[ing]' him in a 'threaten[ing]' and 'physically intimidat[ing]' manner ... 'block[ing]' Phillips path, refusing to allow Phillips 'to retreat,' 'taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd,' [and] chanting, 'Build that wall,' 'Trump2020,' or 'Go back to Africa.'"

Sandmann's lawsuit was based on seven articles and three Tweets that appeared on The Post's website and social media pages after the incident. President Trump supported the lawsuit when it was filed, tweeting: "Covington student suing WAPO. Go get them Nick. Fake News!"

Judge Bertelsman said in the ruling that he accepted Sandmann's contention that "when he was standing motionless in the confrontation with Phillips, his intent was to calm the situation..."

But he noted that Phillips asserted that he was being blocked from passing, and Phillips' opinion was reported by the newspaper.

"They may have been erroneous ... but they are opinion protected by The First Amendment," Bertelsman wrote.

The Sandmann family said they would be asking the appellate court to review the trial court's decision on appeal.

“I believe fighting for justice for my son and family is of vital national importance," said Ted Sandmann, Nicholas' father. "If what was done to Nicholas is not legally actionable, then no one is safe."

“The law must protect innocent minors targeted by journalists publishing click-bait sensationalized news," Todd McMurtry, co-counsel for the Sandmann family, said in the statement. "This is especially true in the current hyper-partisan political environment.”

Sandmann also filed separate lawsuits against CNN and NBC that remain pending.

Look like it isn't going too well for young Mr. Sandmann so far.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost...issed-235322382.html

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a $250 million lawsuit against The Washington Post from the attorneys of Nick Sandmann, the MAGA hat-wearing teen captured in a viral video with Native American activist Nathan Phillips in January.

A student at Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, Sandmann was part of a group of teens filmed surrounding Phillips while he performed an American Indian Movement song on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial early this year.

In interviews following the incident, Phillips claimed Sandmann and the other students swarmed him as he was trying to prevent potential violence between the teens and a group identified as Hebrew Israelites.

In a story titled “‘It was getting ugly’: Native American drummer speaks on his encounter with MAGA-hat-wearing teens,” Phillips told the Post that Sandmann stood in his way as he looked for an exit route.

“It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: ‘I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,’” Phillips recalled in the story. “I started going that way, and that guy in the hat [Sandmann] stood in my way, and we were at an impasse.”

Sandmann later disputed Phillips’ account and claimed that he, too, had been trying to defuse a potentially volatile situation. In February, the student’s lawyers Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry argued in a lawsuit that the Post “wrongfully targeted and bullied” Sandmann “because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap.”

But in his ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman wrote that the lawsuit’s claims are “not supported by the plain language in the article.”

“The Court accepts Sandmann’s statement that, when he was standing motionless in the confrontation with Phillips, his intent was to calm the situation and not to impede or block anyone,” Bertelsman wrote.

The judge continued: “However, Phillips did not see it that way. He concluded that he was being ‘blocked’ and not allowed to ‘retreat.’ He passed these conclusions on to The Post. They may have been erroneous, but ... they are opinion protected by the First Amendment.”

Many major news outlets, including HuffPost, covered the viral incident, which occurred during the first Indigenous Peoples March. Sandmann’s lawyers filed a separate suit against CNN in March for $275 million in damages over its coverage of the incident.

I’ll bet that if someone told lies about the asshats at the Washington Post, they’d be suing to beat the band. Hypocrites.

Can we all just admit that the law is meaningless at this point.

Words have lost meaning in modern America

If a teenager in high school isn't safe from this type of vicious, unjust character defamation, then who is?