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| Hulk Hogan verdict |
The media aggregation has filed a Motion for New Balloon allurement for a new balloon or for the bulk in amercement awarded to Hogan be alone or acutely reduced. Gawker aswell filed a Motion for Judgment Not Withstanding the Verdict, about allurement the adjudicator to bandy out the jury's adjudication because the aggregation believes it was the amiss decision.
"Gawker is now alpha the action of arduous the jury's adjudication in a balloon area key affirmation was abominably withheld and the board was not appropriately instructed on the Constitutional standards for newsworthiness. So we apprehend to be absolutely vindicated," Gawker said in a account to ABC News. "And even if the adjudication were to stand, there is no absolution for application ten (sic) of millions of dollars never credible by victims of afterlife and austere injuries."
David Houston, Hogan's acknowledged counsel, responded to account of Gawker's motions with the afterward statement: "Gawker has fabricated no abstruse of the actuality that they were planning to book a motion for a new balloon and an address based on arguments that are absurd to the case at hand. We emerged arrive already and we plan to do so again. Of agenda it is credible Gawker is clumsy to acquire albatross for their accomplishments or authenticate any ambition of acclimation their behavior."
Last month, a Florida board sided with Hogan, who sued Gawker Media afterwards the website acquaint a allocation of a video of the above pro wrestler accepting sex with the then-wife of his above best friend, Bubba Clem. Hogan -- whose absolute name is Terry Bollea -- was awarded a whopping $115 actor in compensatory amercement additional an added $25.1 actor in castigating damages, for a absolute of $140.1 million.
In its motion for a new balloon filed Monday night, Gawker claims that the adjudication "went adjoin the apparent weight of the affirmation in this case" and that the board based its accommodation on "passion and prejudice, and, in particular, on its accepted distaste" for the media company.
Gawker aswell claims that Hogan's advocate acclimated "improper" arguments during his closing account if he said that the media aggregation did not deserve First Amendment abandon of accent aegis because "it was not 'serious journalism' that followed 'basic journalism practices,' such as 'don’t do things that abuse added humans unless you accept to' and 'be decent' in acquisition information."
In a account afterwards the trial, Gawker’s Accepted Counsel, Heather Dietrick, told ABC News, "Soon afterwards Hulk Hogan brought his aboriginal lawsuits in 2012, three accompaniment appeals cloister board and a federal adjudicator afresh disqualified that Gawker's column was contemporary beneath the First Amendment. We apprehend that to appear afresh -- decidedly because the board was banned from alive about these cloister rulings in favor of Gawker, banned from seeing analytical affirmation aggregate by the FBI and banned from audition from the a lot of important witness, Bubba Clem."
Clem recorded the band of Hogan accepting sex with Clem's then-wife Heather Cole. Hogan and Cole both testified that they did not apperceive they were getting filmed at the time.
Last ages Hogan told ABC News’ Linzie Janis that he believes he did the appropriate affair by suing the media company.
"If they win the appeal, all I adjure is that they change and become in fact journalists and accepted journalists and do the appropriate thing, you know, with their power," Hogan said.
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