A lawsuit targeting a dozen celebrities and public figures was filed Friday on behalf of eight unnamed Covington Catholic High School students, seeking damages for alleged defamatory comments made in the wake of a viral video incident.
In the widely broadcast video, the students were seen laughing and smirking as Native American activistwaded into their midst, banging a drum and chanting. The video, which seemed to show Phillips under attack by the student group, drew instant condemnation on social media as an example of so-called white privilege.
The lawsuit was filed in Kentucky and names 12 individuals, including Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren; actress Kathy Griffin; journalists Maggie Haberman, Ana Navarro and Shaun King; Rep. Debra Haaland from New Mexico,and Adam Edelen, a former state auditor of Kentucky; Political analyst Matthew Dowd; author Reza Aslan; and Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse.
The suit seeks millions in damages and comes a week after a similar lawsuit brought by Covington student Nicholas Sandmann against the Washington Post was dismissed by a federal judge. This lawsuit seeks at least $15,000 and at most $50,000 for each student from each of the 12 defendants. That makes for a total of at least $1.44 million and at most $4.8 million. Sandmann is not a plaintiff in the suit.
Completely support this. Political figures are accountable and need a lesson in the consequences of wrecking people's lives in an attempt to score political points.
Apparently, religious virtues are not taught there. If they spent as much time helping the poor and elderly, as opposed to suing people in groundless lawsuits...
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