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comment by cgod
cgod  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jury Awards Hulk Hogan $115 Million in Gawker Sex-Tape Suit

The award seems excessive to me.





PrettyIceCube  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sentences like that are often done to set an example of the company and threaten other companies to follow the rules.

They also refused a court order to take down the video which may have contributed to it. http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-po-481328088

kleinbl00  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The request was a punitive award designed to throw Gawker Media into receivership and destroy it forever.

The award was $15m more that that.