Judge tosses Covington Catholic student’s defamation lawsuit against Washington Post

By Caitlin Yilek

Published July 27, 2019 3:06am ET

Judge tosses Covington Catholic student’s defamation lawsuit against Washington Post — In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese's all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington. | (Survival Media Agency via AP)

A federal judge in Kentucky dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against the Washington Post by a Covington Catholic High School student.

Nicholas Sandmann and his family sought $250 million in damages over the newspaper’s reporting about a confrontation between Sandmann and a Native American man in January.

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