not everyone settled

CNN and Washington Post settled. I guess you two gals needed something in your pathetic life to make you feel good. Cheers!

greenblood said:

He’s still rich as fuck now. So your point…

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-covington-settlement/

What's True
The case was settled on Jan. 7, 2020.

What's Undetermined
The details of the settlement, including the actual amount of the monetary award, were not made public.

https://lawandcrime.com/media/some-lawyers-think-covington-catholics-nick-sandmann-walked-away-from-media-lawsuits-with-peanuts/amp/

”If you believe this kid got anything more than a nuisance fee settlement, you’re dreaming,” said national security law attorney Bradley P. Moss.

Ok.

MelloDawg said:

greenblood said:

He’s still rich as fuck now. So your point…

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-covington-settlement/

What's True
The case was settled on Jan. 7, 2020.

What's Undetermined
The details of the settlement, including the actual amount of the monetary award, were not made public.

https://lawandcrime.com/media/some-lawyers-think-covington-catholics-nick-sandmann-walked-away-from-media-lawsuits-with-peanuts/amp/

”If you believe this kid got anything more than a nuisance fee settlement, you’re dreaming,” said national security law attorney Bradley P. Moss.

Ok.

Imagine using snopes, yes the snopes that has been proven to be biased and wrong on many occasions, as some kind of factual backup to a point.

Then imagine using snopes as your backup when snopes doesn't even bother to produce facts, only opinions.

You can't be this dumb can you mello?

The judge ruled that it was just an "opinion" that Phillips was "blocked". What a pile of crap. Blocking is not an opinion. It is a fact that should be determined at trial. Blocking isn't just standing. Philips approached the boys and could have left at any time, in fact he eventually did.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nick-sandmann-defamation-lawsuits-against-media-dismissed-federal-judge

Bertelsman also noted that Phillips’s assertions that Sandmann “blocked” him and “wouldn’t allow [him] to retreat” are “objectively unverifiable and thus unactionable opinions.”

“Instead, a reasonable reader would understand that Phillips was simply conveying his view of the situation,” Bertelsman wrote.

“And because the reader knew from the articles that this encounter occurred at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, he or she would know that the confrontation occurred in the expansive area such that it would be difficult to know what might constitute ‘blocking’ another person in that setting.”

HHusky said:

hardhat said:

HHusky said:

hardhat said:

HHusky said:

greenblood said:

MelloDawg said:

greenblood said:

He’s still rich as fuck now. So your point…

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-covington-settlement/

What's True
The case was settled on Jan. 7, 2020.

What's Undetermined
The details of the settlement, including the actual amount of the monetary award, were not made public.

https://lawandcrime.com/media/some-lawyers-think-covington-catholics-nick-sandmann-walked-away-from-media-lawsuits-with-peanuts/amp/

”If you believe this kid got anything more than a nuisance fee settlement, you’re dreaming,” said national security law attorney Bradley P. Moss.

Ok.

Around $200-$250k for each settlement he got minimum. That's the cost to defend, and that's the minimum he'd get. Insurance adjusters do that all the time. Even in borderline frivolous lawsuits, insurance companies will settle for the cost to defend at minimum. If there is even a slight chance they could lose, they may add a multiple to that. If he settled with three media companies, I'd bet he got at least $600-$750k. Given that there was an outlier chance he'd win in court, he probably got close to $2 million in total. So yeah, that's pretty rich for a kid his age. Lawyers take 30%, and the kid keeps $1.4m tax free.

Your “minimum” is more likely the maximum. Especially with something like 30 of his 33 claims dismissed and the remainder on life support. He may have netted 6 figures, but not high 6 figures.

We'll always have you around for your lazy and disingenuous narrative takes. No one really believes he got $250 million, but some estimates are it was $25 million. I can understand you wanting and hoping it to be low because it upsets your side somehow. My side is holding the increasingly shitty media accountable for lying.

Pretty sure that if this were fox news being sued and someone had this take, you'd be ridiculing it. Own your hypocrisy.

Nobody was paying seven figures just to save on discovery costs.

So what's your take then? Sure, hawt takes from right wing talking heads might make it seem like he got $250 million. And hawt takes from the other side can say people are 'dreaming if they think he got more than peanuts'. Still seems like shitty wishcasting. Have you ever 'settled' a defamation case?

I haven't settled a defamation case. But you aren't settling any case very high when you merely hope to find evidence sufficient to survive summary judgment, with no indication that that evidence even exists.

My take? There was no good or obvious reason to fear a hearing on the merits. Sandmann probably benefitted from the fear that discovery would prove embarrassing more than the fear of the costs involved, and he may have netted 6 figures rather than 5 figures as a result. I'm sure newsroom chatter was less than charitable toward a Kentucky Catholic contingent in Washington to protest abortion rights. But at 7 figures, I suspect the news organizations involved would have chosen to live with the embarrassment. Liability was always a stretch.

I give you some points for acknowledging that the only reason things are where they are is a group of adult activists were triggered by a teenager wearing a maga hat. CNN and other shitlib media sites piled on. It's pathetic that the supposedly free press and a group of adults are so ideologically challenged. I have no idea what the figure was, and I doubt it was generational wealth.

HHusky said:

hardhat said:

HHusky said:

hardhat said:

HHusky said:

hardhat said:

HHusky said:

greenblood said:

MelloDawg said:

greenblood said:

He’s still rich as fuck now. So your point…

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-covington-settlement/

What's True
The case was settled on Jan. 7, 2020.

What's Undetermined
The details of the settlement, including the actual amount of the monetary award, were not made public.

https://lawandcrime.com/media/some-lawyers-think-covington-catholics-nick-sandmann-walked-away-from-media-lawsuits-with-peanuts/amp/

”If you believe this kid got anything more than a nuisance fee settlement, you’re dreaming,” said national security law attorney Bradley P. Moss.

Ok.

Around $200-$250k for each settlement he got minimum. That's the cost to defend, and that's the minimum he'd get. Insurance adjusters do that all the time. Even in borderline frivolous lawsuits, insurance companies will settle for the cost to defend at minimum. If there is even a slight chance they could lose, they may add a multiple to that. If he settled with three media companies, I'd bet he got at least $600-$750k. Given that there was an outlier chance he'd win in court, he probably got close to $2 million in total. So yeah, that's pretty rich for a kid his age. Lawyers take 30%, and the kid keeps $1.4m tax free.

Your “minimum” is more likely the maximum. Especially with something like 30 of his 33 claims dismissed and the remainder on life support. He may have netted 6 figures, but not high 6 figures.

We'll always have you around for your lazy and disingenuous narrative takes. No one really believes he got $250 million, but some estimates are it was $25 million. I can understand you wanting and hoping it to be low because it upsets your side somehow. My side is holding the increasingly shitty media accountable for lying.

Pretty sure that if this were fox news being sued and someone had this take, you'd be ridiculing it. Own your hypocrisy.

Nobody was paying seven figures just to save on discovery costs.

So what's your take then? Sure, hawt takes from right wing talking heads might make it seem like he got $250 million. And hawt takes from the other side can say people are 'dreaming if they think he got more than peanuts'. Still seems like shitty wishcasting. Have you ever 'settled' a defamation case?

I haven't settled a defamation case. But you aren't settling any case very high when you merely hope to find evidence sufficient to survive summary judgment, with no indication that that evidence even exists.

My take? There was no good or obvious reason to fear a hearing on the merits. Sandmann probably benefitted from the fear that discovery would prove embarrassing more than the fear of the costs involved, and he may have netted 6 figures rather than 5 figures as a result. I'm sure newsroom chatter was less than charitable toward a Kentucky Catholic contingent in Washington to protest abortion rights. But at 7 figures, I suspect the news organizations involved would have chosen to live with the embarrassment. Liability was always a stretch.

I give you some points for acknowledging that the only reason things are where they are is a group of adult activists were triggered by a teenager wearing a maga hat. CNN and other shitlib media sites piled on. It's pathetic that the supposedly free press and a group of adults are so ideologically challenged. I have no idea what the figure was, and I doubt it was generational wealth.

No disagreement from me that the press obsesses over sideshows. But that’s as true at OAN as it is at CNN.

Missed the point entirely. Right wing niche sites are what they are. NYTimes, CNN, etc are completely biased and pretend that they are not. Peaceful but fiery protests.