“Because: we have never objected to the story being told, or words being used to tell the story. Houston denied that this was a cut and dry first amendment question, however. The motivation to run the story, Denton told the Guardian, was “to close the gap between what was being talked about and what was in the media, and actually what he’d been saying himself, the image he’d been putting out himself about his sex life”. For Hogan to get such a giant payday for his indiscretion: that would be entirely without precedent.” “It would represent $11m for every second of sex on the excerpt that we included to illustrate the story. However, Denton said that the $100m figure was “a big round number plucked out of the air”. “If organisations such as Gawker and their ilk are to be stopped and discouraged, one of the best ways to do it is to have a substantial verdict that in and of itself warns or deters anyone out there from doing the same thing,” he said. Nick Denton, editor of Gawker in New York Photograph: Tim Knoxĭavid Houston, Hogan’s litigation counsel, framed the $100m claim as a deterrent. In fact, there already may be a contingency plan in place: in January, Denton announced that he was planning to sell a minority stake in Gawker Media to the investment company Columbus Nova Partners, in part to bolster the company against the potential $100m hit. This means that Gawker could either have to file for bankruptcy, or find a backer with extremely deep pockets. Under Florida law, if the jury finds in favour of Hogan, Gawker is on the hook for the money immediately as bond while it appeals, $100m is more than the company has on hand, and under Florida law the court can ask for any sum in damages, above and beyond even the amount Hogan set. But the problem for Gawker is that relief might come too late. If he wins, it is likely that the case will later be thrown out on appeal by a higher court. Such a jury may react strongly against Gawker, whom Floridians could see as representing a snarky New York media elite. The problem is that high-minded arguments about the nominally almost ironclad nature of American protections for freedom of speech under the first amendment to the constitution may mean little to this jury, which was drawn from a local pool in St Petersburg, Hogan’s hometown, where he owns a beachside memorabilia shop and is a proud fixture of local life. Hogan and Gawker have fought this suit before, in a federal court which sided with Gawker and affirmed its first amendment right to publish.īut then, Hogan refiled the case in a local civil court in Florida. They will also argue that Hogan talked nearly incessantly about his sex life in the media in any case. There are privacy laws in the US, but they can be superseded by the first amendment and public interest – which Denton argues applies in this case, because Hogan had said publicly that he had not slept with Heather Clem.
“It’s not a cage match except for those that see everything through the prism of fake wrestling.” “Look, this is a serious legal case, with constitutional implications,” Gawker founder Nick Denton told the Guardian. Although Bollea's most recent win occurred in state court, his legal battles against Gawker began in federal court in 2012, and have an extensive and interesting procedural history.Time for the real main event!"I AM" going to slam another Giant! Hogan vrs Gawker! Watcha Gonna Do Gawker? Only Justice Brother HH- Hulk Hogan March 1, 2016 Gawker has appealed the ruling, and in an apparent effort to avoid paying Bollea, also has filed for bankruptcy.
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A Florida state court jury awarded Bollea over $140 million in March as a result of Gawker publicizing on its website a sex tape involving the former professional wrestler.
But now, the Hulk, a/k/a Terry Bollea, may be more famous for pinning down online media giant Gawker Media LLC (Gawker) in the courtroom with the help of third-party litigation financing from PayPal co-founder and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. Hulk Hogan Wrestles Gawker With Third-Party Litigation Financing | Practical Law (sc.Default) The name Hulk Hogan used to be synonymous with wrestling in the ring.
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