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Covington Catholic defamation suit ruling disappoints but doesn’t surprise

By Becket Adams
Published July 29, 2019 4:19pm ET
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Covington Catholic defamation suit ruling disappoints but doesn’t surprise
A federal judge has dismissed a $250 million defamation lawsuit brought against the Washington Post by Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky teen who was accused falsely this year of harassing an elderly Native American protester in the nation’s capital. It is a disappointing, but unsurprising, end to a particularly shameful episode of media malpractice. The Washington […]

A federal judge has dismissed a $250 million defamation lawsuit brought against the Washington Post by Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky teen who was accused falsely this year of harassing an elderly Native American protester in the nation’s capital.

It is a disappointing, but unsurprising, end to a particularly shameful episode of media malpractice.

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