Nicholas Sandmann’s Lawsuits Against 5 Media Outlets Dismissed by Judge

A federal judge in the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed the defamation lawsuit by Nicholas Sandmann against five major media outlets.

Sandmann has filed several suits, including this one, for libel surrounding the events that took place in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2019, and the media coverage that followed.

The judge recently ruled on the case against Rolling Stone, 📰CBS News, 📺ABC News, 📰The New York Times, and the Gannett company, which owns USA Today.

United States District Judge William O. Bertelsman ruled that motions for summary judgment be granted in favor of the five major news companies.

In Bertelsman’s opinion and order he specified that “Summary judgment is appropriate where ‘there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law,'” going on to state the facts of the case that were largely undisputed by the parties about the events of the day in question.

“The Court allowed these cases to proceed to discovery based on the allegations of plaintiff’s complaints and a belief that some development of the context of this incident may be helpful,” Bertelsman said, before going on to address the freedom of speech component of the case.