New York Times loses $9.25M defamation case over Alabama basketball shooting story
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A civil trial against The New York Times reached a multimillion-dollar verdict on Thursday. An Alabama jury determined that the mass media corporation had defamed Kai Spears in 2023, then a freshman walk-on basketball player for the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide.
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Kai Spears was an 18-year-old freshman walk-on basketball player for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide when New York Times sports writer Billy Witz falsely identified Spears as being a passenger in the car at the site of a January 2023 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.
An Alabama jury finds The New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa. Jurors on Thursday awarded $9.25 million in damages.
An Alabama jury awarded Kai Spears $9.25 million in damages after finding The New York Times defamed the former University of Alabama basketball player.
An Alabama jury awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed a former college basketball player, Kai Spears, of the Alabama Crimson Tide, in a story about a fatal shooting.
Kai Spears incorrectly linked to death of young mother Times says it had not lost libel case in more than 50 years An Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shoo…
An Alabama jury awarded $9.25 million in damages on Thursday to a former Alabama college basketball player who sued The New York Times two years ago after […]
An Alabama jury has awarded millions in damages to former walk-on University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears in his defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. […]
A civil trial against The New York Times reached a multimillion-dollar verdict on Thursday. An Alabama jury determined that the mass media corporation had defamed Kai Spears in 2023, then a freshman walk-on basketball player for the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide.
New York Times Loses Defamation Case in Sports Story, Jury Awards $9 Million in Damages Screenshot/YouTube The streak is over. For the first time in more than 50 years, The New York Times has lost a defamation suit.
An Alabama jury awarded a former Crimson Tide basketball player $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed him with an incorrect report stating he was at the scene of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa.
