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Hogan gawker trial analysis
Hogan gawker trial analysis






hogan gawker trial analysis

hogan gawker trial analysis

Hogan did not sue us, as he has claimed, to recover damages from the emotional distress he purportedly experienced upon our revelation in 2012 of a sexual encounter with his best friend’s wife, Heather Cole (then Heather Clem). We will have our day back in appeals court, and we will be vindicated. We have had our day in trial court, and we lost. Emotion was permitted to trump the law, and key evidence and witnesses were kept from the jury.Ī 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. 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. 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.

#HOGAN GAWKER TRIAL ANALYSIS PROFESSIONAL#

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 number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief. The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary.








Hogan gawker trial analysis