Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! Hulk Hogan Awarded Another $25 Million in Gawker Case

[Up Yours Gawker]

Left wing faggots get the law kicked up their snotty assholes
sideways. Can't wait until Trump starts suing these cunts.

A Florida jury assessed Gawker Media millions more in punitive
damages on Monday for having invaded the privacy of the retired
wrestler Hulk Hogan, adding to the $115 million it awarded in
compensatory damages last week.

After a two-week trial in a St. Petersburg courtroom, jurors
ordered Gawker, an online news organization, and its two co-
defendants to pay the 62-year-old former wrestler — addressed in
court as Terry G. Bollea, his real name — more than $25 million
in punitive damages. Gawker Media was ordered to pay $15
million; the company’s founder, Nick Denton, was assessed $10
million; and Gawker.com’s former editor in chief, Albert J.
Daulerio, must come up with $100,000.

In court, Mr. Bollea did not visibly react to the latest award,
in contrast to Friday, when he burst into tears upon hearing of
the huge amount of money he had won in the compensatory award.

Gawker has indicated that it will appeal, and huge damage awards
in cases like these are often overturned or significantly
reduced.

On Friday, the news site was found liable for harming Mr. Bollea
and subjecting him to embarrassment and humiliation by posting a
video in 2012 of him in a behind-closed-doors sexual encounter
that millions of people watched. Gawker.com often trafficked in
salacious fare before recently turning much of its attention to
politics and other, milder topics.

Of the $115 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded Mr.
Bollea last week, $55 million was for economic harm and $60
million for emotional distress, amounts that surprised legal and
media analysts following the closely watched trial.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/business/media/hulk-hogan-
damages-25-million-gawker-case.html