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From: Sam	2/20/2019 6:02:04 PM
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This is a junk lawsuit. They are singling out the Post while many other papers and TV stations covered this incident extensively. This family will either rack up a lot of legal bills or the firm that is doing it will (they are probably doing it for a percentage of whatever they think that they can shakedown the Post for). Covington Catholic student’s family hits the Washington Post with $250 million lawsuit They say it’s not political. By Emily Stewart Feb 20, 2019, 11:00am EST The Covington Catholic High School teen is back — and armed with a $250 million lawsuit against the Washington Post. The family of Nick Sandmann, the MAGA hat-wearing Kentucky teen captured in a standoff with a Native American elder in a video that went viral in January, filed a defamation lawsuit against the Post on Tuesday. The family’s lawyers allege the Post “engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism” with its coverage of the incident and “wrongfully targeted and bullied” Sandmann. “The Post bullied an innocent child with an absolute disregard for the pain and destruction its attacks would cause to his life,” attorneys L. Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry wrote in the suit, which was posted on their website and which they say was filed in the Eastern District of Kentucky. It’s not clear why lawyers are targeting the Post specifically, since plenty of news outlets — including Vox — covered the story extensively. Fox News points out that Sandmann’s lawyers earlier this month sent more than 50 preservation letters — a warning that litigation might be coming — to over 50 media organizations, celebrities, and politicians. continues at vox.com

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