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| Gawker Owner Nick Denton Whines About The Hulk Hogan Verdict |
| 2016-03-22 |
| The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on Gawker.com about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary. The number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief. It’s a huge pay-day for an indiscretion that would have been quickly forgotten, one among many in the professional wrestler’s personal life. The enormous size of the verdict is chilling to Gawker Media and other publishers with a tabloid streak, but it is also a flag to higher courts that this case went wildly off the rails. The plaintiff’s lawyers, with the occasional assist from our witnesses, successfully painted Gawker as representative of an untrammeled internet that good and decent people should find frightening and distasteful. Emotion was permitted to trump the law, and key evidence and witnesses were kept from the jury. A state appeals court and a federal judge have already held repeatedly that the 2012 commentary and short video excerpt, which joined an existing conversation and explored the public’s fascination with celebrity sex tapes, were newsworthy. We have had our day in trial court, and we lost. We will have our day back in appeals court, and we will be vindicated. Couldn't happen to a |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #4 Where is he going to get the bond money that must be posted in order to appeal? |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Angolurong5086 2016-03-22 22:39 |
| #3 Fester Thrimble9033? Wrestling "fan" or Denton paid-prick? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-03-22 21:25 |
| #2 FT, I heard it my law course as, if you have the law pound the law; if you have the facts pound the facts, if you have neither pound the table. Denton is pounding that table for all he's worth. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-03-22 20:28 |
| #1 When you don't have the law, argue the facts. When you don't have the facts, argue the law. When you have neither, persecute the prosecutor. Which is exactly what he just did. Flame Hogan and ignore his own perfidy. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving prick. |
| Posted by: Fester Thrimble9033 2016-03-22 18:42 |