Hulkamania runs wild on Gawker Media (THE RIDE NEVER ENDS)

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:38 am #160655

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?”

Daulerio answered flatly, “If they were a child.”

“Under what age?” attorney Charles Harder asked.

“Four,” he said.

“No four-year-old sex tapes, OK,” Harder said.

You literally cannot make this shit up.

UPDATE: THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

An0n3 wrote:RING THAT BELL AGAIN REF

ITS TIME FOR ROUND TWO

http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/hulk-hogan ... r-lawsuit/

A TRIAL SO NICE WE DID IT TWICE
I GOT TWO LEGS AND I ONLY DROPPED THE ONE
IT AINT OVER YET

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:50 am #160658

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Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:53 am #160660

Tell that to Gawker's legal team. I'm just here to watch the pretty fire.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 1:49 pm #160696

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:04 pm #160698

IT'S LEGAL-MANIA BROTHERRRRRRRRR

I hope Hulk wins it all and Gawker dies a horrible death.

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Post by **Shaps-cloud** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:24 pm #160715

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

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 7:17 pm #160801

O WHEN IT COMES CRASHIN DOWN AND IT HURTS INSIDE

Super Aggro Crag · Thu Mar 10, 2016 7:42 pm

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.

ColonicAcid · Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:42 am

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.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:19 am #161199

Shaps wrote:
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

Post by **oranges** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:00 am #161730

Luke Cox wrote:
Court wrote: “Under what age?” attorney Charles Harder asked.

“Four,” he said.

“No four-year-old sex tapes, OK,” Harder said.
You literally cannot make this shit up.

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Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:11 pm #162279

Some happenings:

Hogan's lawyers are fucking the defense so hard that they're going to have to register as sex offenders by the time this is over

Super Aggro Crag · Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:07 am

REAL AMERICANS: 115 MILLION

GAWKER: 0

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:19 am #162725

https://mobile.twitter.com/annamphillip ... 7484140545

THAT KILLED THEM!

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:28 am #162729

So unless Gawker and Kotaku have secret butt gold somewhere that means both are going bankrupt.

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:57 am #162733

Or manage to win on appeal. Though that's unlikely at this point.

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:15 am #162735

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.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:34 am #162742

The best they can hope for is a reduction in how much they owe Hogan.

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:55 am #162754

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.

Post by **MrStonedOne** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 2:18 am #162760

Venticular · Post by **Venticular** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 2:23 am #162761

This is the worst case of hypocrisy I have ever seen

What is the cure doc

DrPillzRedux · Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:10 am

That's $115 million plus another 70-80 million for punitive. Gawker is gonna go under.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:13 am #162779

Gawker won't be missed

Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:23 am

HULKSTERRRRR

115 MILLION BROTHERRRRRR

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:39 am #162785

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?

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:03 am

Luke Cox wrote:
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]

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:21 am #162795

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.

TechnoAlchemist · Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:51 am

We will finally be free of Kotaku

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:52 am #162804

ColonicAcid · Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:15 pm

BROTHERS HAVE I EVER TOLD YOU HOW I CHOKED SLAM GAWKER ALL THE WAY TO THE DOUBLE EW DOUBLE EW EEE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP??

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 4:59 pm #162845

Good riddance to bad rubbish, I hope anyway.

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:57 pm #163414

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

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:19 am #163521

There is Justice in the world

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 2:43 am #163530

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

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:50 am #163545

Punitive damages were set at $25 million, bringing the total to $140 million

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:45 pm #164243

Decent. Maybe now they'll know better

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:39 pm #164249

I don't think they're gonna be around to know better

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:53 pm

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!

Screemonster · Sat Mar 26, 2016 3:27 pm

running a search for "hulk hogan gawker" led me to these deliciously salty, bitter tears of an article.

Gawker is a fucking rag and nothing of value will be lost when it goes down the toilet.

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 3:43 pm #164610

Screemonster wrote:running a search for "hulk hogan gawker" led me to these deliciously salty, bitter tears of an article.

Don't even give them the benefit of a page view, http://archive.is/V0IBi

Cheridan · Post by **Cheridan** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 4:37 pm #164620

Saegrimr wrote:
Screemonster wrote:running a search for "hulk hogan gawker" led me to these deliciously salty, bitter tears of an article.
Don't even give them the benefit of a page view, http://archive.is/V0IBi

hahahahha that last paragraph where they pretend that they're some heroes of journalism ferreting out hidden truths

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 6:33 pm #164634

Them trying to spin this like they are the victims is equal parts hilarious and infuriating. Rip in shit gawker, you will not be missed

Sun Mar 27, 2016 7:29 am

Screemonster wrote:running a search for "hulk hogan gawker" led me to these deliciously salty, bitter tears of an article.

Gawker is a fucking rag and nothing of value will be lost when it goes down the toilet.

i opened that page and adblock immediately threw up 15 ads blocked
wew what a scummy "news" site, rest in shit

DrPillzRedux · Sun Mar 27, 2016 7:38 am

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Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:13 am #167025

Gawker is trying to counter-sue Hogan. It's so cute, they think they have a leg to stand on. Unfortunately, "nuh-uh" is not a valid legal defense.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 6:39 am #167041

Counter sue for...Them not doing what the judge told them to do?

I can see this ending very poorly
For Gawker

Incomptinence · Wed Apr 06, 2016 8:21 am

I dunno why they ever pretended to have values journalistic or otherwise.

Its like a rat cornering itself and slitting its own throat. Totally avoidable and pointless, except for the hulk's wallet.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Tue May 03, 2016 1:55 am #173224

RING THAT BELL AGAIN REF

ITS TIME FOR ROUND TWO

http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/hulk-hogan ... r-lawsuit/

A TRIAL SO NICE WE DID IT TWICE
I GOT TWO LEGS AND I ONLY DROPPED THE ONE
IT AINT OVER YET

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Tue May 03, 2016 6:04 am #173277

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

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.

DrPillzRedux · Tue May 03, 2016 6:55 am

This thread needs to be renamed.