How many millions will Rittenhouse be awarded for defamation suits?

[YooserName]

MSNBC is so fucked. I hope he sues the shit out of bastards just like them.

They never learn.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Just about everyone on that despicable slander-channel is exposed.

 

[YooserName]

And all of them will continue working there.

 

[ll74]

The term defamation has lost its meaning

 

[Bud_Spencer]

The term defamation has lost its meaning

Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person's reputation; decreases the respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/defamation

Yeah, they're all fucked. Again.

 

[Rightguide]

Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person's reputation; decreases the respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/defamation

Yeah, they're all fucked. Again.

Remember the Covington kids? They got that one wrong too.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Remember the Covington kids? They got that one wrong too.

I think Sandmann just settled out of court with the WaPo

 

[bellisarius]

I think Sandmann just settled out of court with the WaPo

Yup, just as the CNN settlement was out of court for an unspecified sum.

What I'd like to see is this; "Here's the deal _______________(fill in the blank). If you want to settle out of court with a gag order on the deal, $100 million up front in cash. Otherwise we drag your ass through court proceedings." They want to hide behind an agreement? Make them pay through the nose.

 

[YooserName]

Yup, just as the CNN settlement was out of court for an unspecified sum.

What I'd like to see is this; "Here's the deal _______________(fill in the blank). If you want to settle out of court with a gag order on the deal, $100 million up front in cash. Otherwise we drag your ass through court proceedings." They want to hide behind an agreement? Make them pay through the nose.

That’s what usually happens.

 

[oggbashan]

I think anyone considering following in his footsteps would have second thoughts. 23 hours for the jury to reach a verdict? It could easily have gone the other way.

The verdict doesn't justify acting as a vigilante. Self-defense was accepted but another jury might decide that it wouldn't be.

 

[ll74]

Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person's reputation; decreases the respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/defamation

Yeah, they're all fucked. Again.

Not even close. Proving the intent is always the issue...good luck.

Nobody is fucked.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Not even close. Proving the intent is always the issue...good luck.

Nobody is fucked.

They are journalists. Their whole job is (theoretically) to accurately collect, record and relay information. They knew the facts, they just decided to ignore tham. That's intent.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

I think anyone considering following in his footsteps would have second thoughts. 23 hours for the jury to reach a verdict? It could easily have gone the other way.

The verdict doesn't justify acting as a vigilante. Self-defense was accepted but another jury might decide that it wouldn't be.

It wouldn't have gone the other way. Not in a thousand years. The worst is that it would have wound up in a 10-2 or 11-1 hung jury.

This was self-defense, purely. The law requires that the accused prove that before the harm inflicted can be excused. The fact that KR was found not guilty means he was successful in doing that.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

They are journalists. Their whole job is (theoretically) to accurately collect, record and relay information. They knew the facts, they just decided to ignore tham. That's intent.

It will be hard to prove what the journalists "knew." It would be batter just to ignore tham.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

It will be hard to prove what the journalists "knew." It would be batter just to ignore tham.

You have a point here. If talking heads like Cooper, Reid, Mystal, Scarborough, etc. all put up their right hands and swear that they never acquainted themselves of any of the facts and simply spun fables based on nothing more than their woke faith, I do believe that it would be very easy to believe that to be true.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

You have a point here. If talking heads like Cooper, Reid, Mystal, Scarborough, etc. all put up their right hands and swear that they never acquainted themselves of any of the facts and simply spun fables based on nothing more than their woke faith, I do believe that it would be very easy to believe that to be true.

Why didn't you list any journalists?

 

[ll74]

They are journalists. Their whole job is (theoretically) to accurately collect, record and relay information. They knew the facts, they just decided to ignore tham. That's intent.

Feel free to provide stories where they lied about the facts to defame him.

I doubt anyone will win a suit

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Why didn't you list any journalists?

They are all journalists, and CNN even calls Cooper an "anchor."

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Feel free to provide stories where they lied about the facts to defame him.

I doubt anyone will win a suit

They are all journalists, and CNN even calls Cooper an "anchor."

https://media.makeameme.org/created/welp-96n2ta.jpg

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Feel free to provide stories where they lied about the facts to defame him.

I doubt anyone will win a suit

Quite a number called KR a "white supremacist," which is untrue. There is a lot more that will be reviewed in the coming lawsuits. It won't be hard to find.

 

[LAHomedog]

Anybody can file a lawsuit about anything at anytime. There is no merit in a defamation lawsuit against any kind of news organization no matter what the political agenda or spectrum of of that organization is.

He was charged with a crime and tried in open court. That widens the interpretation of the laws even further and gives even a wider road regarding 1st amendment rights.

And I think that is what it is.

 

[colddiesel]

Rittenhouse is not yet completely free of problems. He was freed by a criminal court which required a burden of proof, "beyond reasonable doubt," but if a civil action was taken against him by the deceased dependents where the proof required is on the "Balance of probability" he would be in significant strife.

A similar burden of proof is required in a Defamation case but US courts have been very reluctant to find in favour of plaintiffs. Interesting to see what happens.

Given Mr Trumps support, perhaps Rittenhouse could ask him for a loan to cover legal fees.

 

[bellisarius]

Anybody can file a lawsuit about anything at anytime. There is no merit in a defamation lawsuit against any kind of news organization no matter what the political agenda or spectrum of of that organization is.

He was charged with a crime and tried in open court. That widens the interpretation of the laws even further and gives even a wider road regarding 1st amendment rights.

And I think that is what it is.

Really? Have you passed that profound legal knowledge on to the Covington kids? Maybe they should give the money back.

 

[ll74]

Quite a number called KR a "white supremacist," which is untrue. There is a lot more that will be reviewed in the coming lawsuits. It won't be hard to find.

Yes, I get that you believe that.

And when it doesn't happen, you won't ever acknowledge that you were wrong.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Yes, I get that you believe that.

And when it doesn't happen, you won't ever acknowledge that you were wrong.

I'm not. I think pretty much every CNN and MsNBC on-air personality did so.