Backstory in a nutshell: Gawker illegally published a sex tape of Hulk Hogan in which he said some racist shit, cost him his career, defied a court order to take it down, and published an article acknowledging that they were knowingly violating said court order. Hogan is suing for $100 million (the estimated value of his career), and the trial started this week. Here's the latest: http://nypost.com/2016/03/09/gawker-edi ... -year-old/
A.J. Daulerio, 41, was sitting ramrod straight in the Florida courtroom during the awkward moment when he was asked on video by Hogan’s lawyer, “Can you imagine a situation where a celebrity sex tape would not be newsworthy?”
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on the arrival shuttle, I saw the iconic toolbox on the ground. I clubbed myself in the head with it trying to figure out the controls.
Setting the tool box, now bloodied, back on the table; I went to heal myself with a medkit. I clubbed myself in the head with that too.
I've come a long ways from asking how to switch hands.
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The HoP just toolboxes someone to death out of nowhere, then gets speared by a chemist who saw him murder a guy, then the chemist gets beaten to death because someone else saw him kill the HoP.
Tele-man somehow dies and gets its looted by an atmos tech who managed to use it to send two nuke ops to lavaland, who were then surrounded by several very angry people from earlier and some extra golems on top of it.
Captain dies, gets cloned/revived, lasers the guy holding the disk into crit to take it back.
Some idiot tries to welderbomb the AI hiding out at mining for no discernible reason.
Two permabans and a dayban, i'm expecting a snarky appeal from one of them soon. What the fuck.
In a clip played for the jury, Hogan said that he didn’t know who the woman was because “the truth is it wasn’t just one brunette … I was running pretty wild there for a few months.”
Jesus Hogan, you dog
P.S. Shoot Dr. Allen on sight and dissolve his body in acid. Don't burn it.
i remember when this first started and hogan was suing gawker so gawker then leaked hulk hogan saying the n-word in an attempt to get him to drop the case. gawker is dumb.
Remember when hulk hogan turned evil and then macho man randy savage beat him back to his senses. I think this was the result of the inter get my ass whooped era.
In a clip played for the jury, Hogan said that he didn’t know who the woman was because “the truth is it wasn’t just one brunette … I was running pretty wild there for a few months.”
Jesus Hogan, you dog
YEAH BROTHERRRRRRRRRRR
LOOK HOW MANY BRUNETTES I CAN WRAP THESE 24 INCH PYTHONS AROUND
After the shitshow that was the trial, it is astronomically unlikely that they'll win an appeal.
It should also be noted that this figure from the initial ruling does NOT include punitive damages, which the jury decided to award. Gawker as a whole has been valued at 300 million. This could very realistically kill them. If the settlement doesn't, the fact that no advertiser in their right mind would want to affiliate themselves with Gawker's brand after all this will.
Considering that they indisputably ruined his career through illegal activity, that's unlikely. Hogan asked for $100 million, the jury gave him $115 million plus punitive damages. It's a slam dunk case for Hogan.
This is the worst case of hypocrisy I have ever seen
What is the cure doc
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DrPillzRedux wrote:That's $115 million plus another 70-80 million for punitive. Gawker is gonna go under.
I was curious about that bit actually. How much do punitive damages typically pay out relative to the compensation awarded?
According to everyone's favorite site there's no real limit to how much punitive damages can pay out. But I guess the supreme court can limit that if the award is ridiculously too high.
Wikipedia wrote:There is no maximum dollar amount of punitive damages that a defendant can be ordered to pay. In response to judges and juries which award high punitive damages verdicts, the Supreme Court of the United States has made several decisions which limit awards of punitive damages through the due process of law clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. In a number of cases, the Court has indicated that a 4:1 ratio between punitive and compensatory damages is high enough to lead to a finding of constitutional impropriety, and that any ratio of 10:1 or higher is almost certainly unconstitutional. However, the Supreme Court carved out a notable exception to this rule of proportionality in the case of TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp., where it affirmed an award of $10 million in punitive damages, despite the compensatory damages being only $19,000, a punitive-to-compensatory ratio of more than 526 to 1. In this case, the Supreme Court affirmed that disproportionate punitive damages were allowed for especially egregious conduct (the trial court in the same case purportedly said "What could be more egregious than the vice president of a company saying, well, testifying and saying that he knew all along that this property belonged to Tug Fork?")[21]
Right, so the behavior of the defendant is a factor in this, and the damages awarded can reach up to $460 million without violating a supreme court ruling. Gawker is FUCKED.
the thing you have to understand about gawker is they are trolls. they've been trolling before some of you were even born ALL PLAYERS ARE OVER THE AGE OF 18
the hulk case is particularly cool trolling because it forces everyone in the media to defend a company that just said they'd publish child porn
"I don't see any difference between ERP and rape." -- erro
if the entire umbrella thing goes bankrupt i will feel a small bit of sadness because deadspin and jalopnik are both legitimately good sites and i'd hate to see them go, but i guess they could always just get sold to non-garbage companies
Maccus wrote:I don't think they're gonna be around to know better
Good, Gawker's death rattle will serve as a warning to the others. That Hulkamania is alive and when it's coming for you there's nowhere to crawl to brother!
I think he knows he probably won't win this one. His plan is obviously to bankrupt them and make Gawker LLC completely unappealing to venture capitalists though litigation hell.