The Bollea case, said Coffee, depends on invasion of privacy. You’re going to get the community judgment of St Petersburg, Florida.” “Having the ability to choose the fact-finder is a far greater advantage than having the case law. “Being able to choose a Florida jury probably gives them greater advantages than would a series of supreme court decisions,” Coffee said. “I don’t think he any damages from her, but he has a case for keeping the venue in Florida. Coffee said that much may depend on the venue, and Bollea, a Tampa native, may benefit considerably from the home field advantage.Ĭoffee said that Bollea’s suit against Clem – for allegedly violating copyright and since dropped – would help keep the trial on his the wrestler’s home turf. The question now is whether the company can weather litigation from Bollea – the retired wrestler has asked the court for $100m – and what will happen to it if it loses. Gawker Media’s newly formed union excoriated company management for removing the escort story in a terse post on Friday the company’s executive editor Tommy Craggs and the editor-in-chief of the flagship site (Gawker), Max Read, resigned in protest on Monday. “In light of Gawker’s past rhetoric about our fearlessness and independence, this can be seen as a capitulation,” Denton wrote in an introspective post on Friday. If is an invasion of privacy, why isn’t it an invasion of privacy when you have a video of what happened? Gawker didn’t have a video of the potential gay relationship here.” “‘You must have thought it was wrong!’ And he’ll have to say yes. “Someone’s going to say to him, ‘You took this off of your website, even though you had violent opposition from two leading staffers who resigned,’” Coffee predicted. But its removal may cause just as many problems. In a heated staff meeting on Tuesday reported by Capital New York, Denton told his editorial team that he saw the escort story as “threatening ability to actually fight its way through the Hogan trial and threatening its business”. Now that Gawker has posted (and taken down) its story about a publishing executive, married to a woman and a father of three, who exchanged texts with a male escort, Columbia Law School professor John Coffee says Denton will have a harder time under questioning. The next date in the Gawker v Hogan lawsuit is 1 October, when a case management conference is scheduled.
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