Today 2:08 pm
Point being?Huey » 15 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Corbett’s instincts were justified. The Times’ story was a bad misfire—one that resulted in the paper’s first defamation trial loss in a United States court in more than fifty years. When the trial ended last month, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, a jury awarded 9.25 million dollars to a former University of Alabama basketball player named Kai Spears, because the Times had mistakenly placed him as a passenger in a car that was at the scene of a tragic shooting death.
https://www.cjr.org/news/how-the-new-yo ... spears.php
The award was reduced but they still lost.