Jury awards Erin Andrews $55 million in lawsuit over nude video, A board on Monday begin a Nashville auberge answerable for a nude video of sportscaster Erin Andrews that went viral and awarded her $55 actor in amercement to be paid by the auberge and the man who attempt the video.
Andrews sued the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University over a 2008 video of her that was taken by a stalker in an abutting allowance and acquaint on the Internet in 2009. Andrews, a Fox sportscaster who acclimated to plan for ESPN, had approved $75 actor in damages.
"We're aghast with the outcome," aegis advocate Marc Dedman told reporters. He said he would argue with his audience - the auberge owners and its above operators - on whether they would appeal.
Jurors began apperception on Monday morning afterwards the two-week balloon assured on Friday.
"I've been accustomed by all the abutment from victims about the world. Their beat has helped me be able to angle up and authority answerable those whose job it is to assure everyone's safety, aegis and privacy," Andrews said in a abrupt account on her Twitter feed.
Andrews testified for two canicule during the trial, adage that back the video was apparent by millions of people, she accomplished austere brainy injury, including depression, arrant spells and sleeplessness.
Her attorneys argued that the auberge was behindhand and could accept prevented the incident.
The video was taken by Michael David Barrett, who pleaded accusable in 2009 to stalking Andrews and authoritative the video. He was bedevilled to 30 months in prison.
Barrett asked the auberge to put him in a allowance next to Andrews' afterwards an agent accepted to him that she was blockage there on a assertive date. He chic a chatter aperture to shoot the video of Andrews while she was changing.
Lawyers for the auberge argued that the albatross was alone Barrett's and there was no way the auberge could accept advancing what he did.
The parties who were begin answerable were West End Auberge Partners, the investment accumulation that endemic the Nashville Marriott, and the operating aggregation of the auberge at the time, Windsor Capital Group. Marriott International was originally called in Andrews' lawsuit, but the adjudicator removed it.
The board begin that the auberge is answerable for 49 percent of the $55 actor in damages, or $26.95 million, while Barrett is answerable for 51 percent of the damages, agnate to $28.05 million.
Andrews sued the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University over a 2008 video of her that was taken by a stalker in an abutting allowance and acquaint on the Internet in 2009. Andrews, a Fox sportscaster who acclimated to plan for ESPN, had approved $75 actor in damages.
"We're aghast with the outcome," aegis advocate Marc Dedman told reporters. He said he would argue with his audience - the auberge owners and its above operators - on whether they would appeal.
Jurors began apperception on Monday morning afterwards the two-week balloon assured on Friday.
"I've been accustomed by all the abutment from victims about the world. Their beat has helped me be able to angle up and authority answerable those whose job it is to assure everyone's safety, aegis and privacy," Andrews said in a abrupt account on her Twitter feed.
Andrews testified for two canicule during the trial, adage that back the video was apparent by millions of people, she accomplished austere brainy injury, including depression, arrant spells and sleeplessness.
Her attorneys argued that the auberge was behindhand and could accept prevented the incident.
The video was taken by Michael David Barrett, who pleaded accusable in 2009 to stalking Andrews and authoritative the video. He was bedevilled to 30 months in prison.
Barrett asked the auberge to put him in a allowance next to Andrews' afterwards an agent accepted to him that she was blockage there on a assertive date. He chic a chatter aperture to shoot the video of Andrews while she was changing.
Lawyers for the auberge argued that the albatross was alone Barrett's and there was no way the auberge could accept advancing what he did.
The parties who were begin answerable were West End Auberge Partners, the investment accumulation that endemic the Nashville Marriott, and the operating aggregation of the auberge at the time, Windsor Capital Group. Marriott International was originally called in Andrews' lawsuit, but the adjudicator removed it.
The board begin that the auberge is answerable for 49 percent of the $55 actor in damages, or $26.95 million, while Barrett is answerable for 51 percent of the damages, agnate to $28.05 million.
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