HULK HOGAN GETS $115M VERDICT AGAINST GAWKER AT SEX TAPE TRIAL. “A stunned-looking Nick Denton watched from the gallery and took a deep breath. Gawker has already indicated it will appeal.”
Related: “Enjoying all the First Amendment posturing on behalf of Gawker by people totally cool with campus totalitarianism,” Iowahawk tweets.
More: “The jury must still consider whether to impose punitive damages next week. ‘We’re coming back Monday for the rest of it,’ [Hogan’s lawyer David Houston] said,” according to CNN. Plus these quotes from Kenneth Turkel, another of Hogan’s attorneys:
Turkel invoked a 2013 interview in which Denton said “invasion of privacy has incredibly positive effects on society.”
“Who thinks like that?” the attorney asked incredulously.
On two occasions, Turkel seemed to suggest that Denton and his company don’t share the Florida jury’s values.
“This guy is up there in New York sitting behind a computer playing god with other people’s lives,” Turkel said of Denton. Turkel also scoffed that Daulerio wrote in his 2012 commentary that “the Internet has made it easier for all of us to be shameless voyeurs and deviants.”
“I’m not so sure all of us are shameless voyeurs and deviants,” Turkel said. “They may be up there on Fifth Avenue at Gawker.”
Shades of Ted Cruz’s “New York Values” meme.