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Kentucky high school student says he has settled a $250 million lawsuit with the Washington Post

CNN has settled a lawsuit with a Kentucky teen who claimed media organizations falsely labeled him as a racist following a well-publicized encounter with a Native American last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

The network confirmed the settlement Tuesday, as did Todd McMurtry, a lawyer for Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky. Neither side would give details of the settlement.

Media commentary in the aftermath depicted Sandmann and his classmates as racially insensitive. Sandmann and Phillips later said they were both trying to defuse tensions among conflicting groups converging at the Memorial.

Video of the encounter showed Sandmann and Phillips standing close to each other, with the young student staring and at times smiling at Phillips as he sang and played a drum
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NEW YORK (AP) — CNN has settled a lawsuit with a Kentucky teen who claimed media organizations falsely labeled him as a racist following a well-publicized encounter with a Native American last year…
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A Kentucky high school student says he has settled a $250 million lawsuit with the Washington Post on his 18th birthday after he sued them claiming they made him out to be a racist following his stand-off with a Native American protester.

Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, tweeted that the news outlet had settled the defamation lawsuit on Friday, which also happens to be his birthday.

Sandmann filed lawsuits against the Post, CNN and NBC after claiming the outlets vilified him following his stand-off with Nathan Phillips, an American Indian activist, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in January 2019.

'On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit,' Sandmann said.

Sandmann did not reveal what the settlement was.

He settled a lawsuit with CNN in January for an undisclosed amount.

Sandmann and his family were seeking combined damages of more than $525 million against the outlets.

The teen claimed the outlets had falsely conveyed to viewers and readers that he was 'the face of an unruly mob' facing off against Phillips during protests at the memorial while he was in Washington DC on a field trip.
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Kentucky teen settles $250m lawsuit with Washington Post

Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, said on Friday he had settled a $250 million defamation lawsuit with the Washington Post.
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Covington teen Nick Sandmann’s attorney threatens CNN, Washington Post with more legal action
The attorney for high school student Nick Sandmann, who won settlements with CNN and the Washington Post over the botched coverage of his encounter with a Native American activist, threatened further legal action against the outlets for alleged breaches of confidentiality.


The Washington Post last week agreed to settle a monster $250 million lawsuit filed by the Covington Catholic High School student.

It was the teen’s second win in a whopping $800 million defamation battle against several news outlets, including ABC, CBS, The Guardian, The Hill and NBC.

In January, CNN agreed to settle with Sandmann as part of a separate $275 million claim.

Sandmann and a group of his classmates were vilified online after they were filmed wearing “Make America Great Again” hats following an anti-abortion rally while being yelled at by demonstrators.

He was singled out after footage of his confrontation with Native American activist Nathan Phillips was picked up by CNN and other outlets who claimed the incident was racially motivated.

But footage released later showed the Covington students were the ones who were actually being harassed.

Sandmann’s attorney Lin Wood has now taken aim at CNN’s Brian Stelter, host of “Reliable Sources,” over his retweet of an analysis by another lawyer who is apparently not connected with the case, Law and Crime reported.

“This retweet by @brianstelter may have cost him his job at @CNN. It is called breach of confidentiality agreement. Brian Stelter is a liar. I know how to deal with liars,” Wood said in a tweet.

Stelter shared a tweet by Mark Zaid, who speculated about how much money Sandmann walked away with from the settlement.

“Those with zero legal experience (as far as I can tell) should not be conjecturing on lawsuits they know nothing about. What kind of journalism is that?” Zaid wrote.

“I’ve litigated defamation cases. Sandman [sic] was undoubtedly paid nuisance value settlement & nothing more,” he added.

Sandmann also took a shot at Stelter in a tweet.

“I can’t decide if it’s worse to be Brian Stelter or believe Brian Stelter. He was never in any court hearing or meeting I was. So why does he act like he knows anything?” he wrote.
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Nicholas Sandmann settled Friday with NBC-Universal, he said.

The media had lambasted the Covington Catholic High School student from Kentucky, now 19, over a confrontation at the 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

“At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement,” wrote Sandmann on Twitter, adding that the terms were confidential.

Following the 2019 incident in Washington, D.C., many media outlets and Democratic politicians criticized Sandmann for a confrontation with a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial following the march.

Sandmann was recorded on video wearing one of former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign hats while smiling at the activist, Nathan Phillips, as Phillips beat a ceremonial drum and chanted at him in close proximity.

Several media reports at the time claimed the incident was racially charged on the part of the White teenager, which Sandmann and other witnesses disputed.

CNN and the Washington Post both settled defamation lawsuits from Sandmann in 2020 for undisclosed amounts.

The suit against CNN sought damages for “emotional distress Nicholas and his family suffered” in the fallout of the network’s reporting.

Law school professor William Jacobson told Fox News at the time that CNN agreeing to settle is a “rare example of a ‘little guy’ being able to stand up to a media behemoth” and estimated the deal was worth at least seven figures.

In 2020, Sandmann attorney Todd McMurtry told Fox News that lawsuits against “as many as 13 other defendants will be filed,” including ABC, CBS, The Guardian, HuffPost, NPR, Slate, The Hill, and Gannett, which owns the Cincinnati Enquirer as well as other small outlets.
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Nicholas Sandmann reaches settlement with NBC in Covington Catholic High School controversy

Student Nicholas Sandmann announced on Twitter he reached a settlement with NBC-Universal over coverage of a confrontation at the 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
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COVINGTON, Ky. (WXIX) - Nicholas Sandmann’s libel lawsuits against ABC, CBS, Gannett, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone have been dismissed by a federal judge.
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The media outlets published stories that quoted or cited Phillips as claiming Sandmann “blocked” or “stopped [Phillips’] exit.”

Following the January 2019 incident in D.C., Sandmann filed lawsuits against ABC, CBS, CNN, Gannett (which owns the Cincinnati Enquirer’s parent company, USA Today), NBC, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Washington Post.

Sandmann’s complaints argue Phillips’ statements were false and defamatory, meaning the companies acted negligently, recklessly and with actual malice in publishing them. That is, the companies allegedly could have determined the statements were false using the other videos and by relying on “reasonable journalistic care,” but did not.

Other videos later surfaced showing different angles of the interaction between Sandmann and Phillips.

In 2020, Sandmann settled his lawsuits against CNN, NBC Universal and the Washington Post. A dozen Covington Catholic students also attempted a lawsuit against CNN, NBC and the Washington Post. That suit was dismissed.

Sandmann’s lawsuit sought $800 million from CNN, the Washington Post and NBC Universal.

The amounts from any of the three settlements have not been made public.
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Nicholas Sandmann’s lawsuit against ABC, CBS, other national outlets dismissed

Nicholas Sandmann, the former Covington Catholic student, previously settled three other lawsuits against media outlets.
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Nick Sandmann asks Musk to release ‘hidden’ Twitter files on death threats against him​

Former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann wants Elon Musk to release any “hidden Twitter” files about death threats against him and his classmates.

Sandmann — who sued a number of media outlets over coverage of a viral confrontation at a 2019 March for Life rally in Washington, DC, –wrote to the owner of Twitter Sunday, remarking on the release of a report about how the social media giant censored The Post’s 2020 expose on Hunter Biden.

“As I’m watching this all play out, I’m wondering if @elonmusk has any hidden twitter files relating to what went on here,” he posted on his Twitter account. “Let’s be clear: under the watch of @vijaya they allowed these illegal threats when I was 16 years old.”

Sandmann included screenshots of Twitter accounts making violent threats about him and other students at the Kentucky school at the time.

One said: “Burn the f–king school down,” while another read: “#MAGAkids go screaming, hats first, into the woodchipper.”
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Nick Sandmann asks Musk to release ‘hidden’ Twitter files on death threats against him

Former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann wants Elon Musk to release any “hidden Twitter” files about death threats against him and his fellow students.
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