I realize this was over a week ago but I somehow missed it.
A state appeals court has ruled in favor of an agent in the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation who had sued The News & Observer for libel and won $6 million from a Wake County jury after a 2016 trial that lasted more than three weeks.
A panel of three judges on the N.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously rejected the newspaper’s appeal of the jury’s 2016 decision, in which the jury found that The N&O and reporter Mandy Locke libeled a public official and caused her to experience post-traumatic stress disorder.
The appeals court said that the more than 8,500 pages of court evidence from the trial “tended to show that the primary objective of defendants [the N&O] was sensationalism rather than truth.”
Whoda thunk it?
A state appeals court has ruled in favor of an agent in the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation who had sued The News & Observer for libel and won $6 million from a Wake County jury after a 2016 trial that lasted more than three weeks.
A panel of three judges on the N.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously rejected the newspaper’s appeal of the jury’s 2016 decision, in which the jury found that The N&O and reporter Mandy Locke libeled a public official and caused her to experience post-traumatic stress disorder.
The appeals court said that the more than 8,500 pages of court evidence from the trial “tended to show that the primary objective of defendants [the N&O] was sensationalism rather than truth.”
Whoda thunk it?
