[CincinnatiEnquirer] A panel of three federal judges in Cincinnati affirmed a lower court's dismissal last year of defamation lawsuits by former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann against five national media outlets, including The Enquirer’s owner, Gannett Co.
Sandmann, who according to his social media accounts now attends Transylvania University in Lexington,
...is the Cincinnati Enquirer trying to gin up outraged calls to the university to get Mr. Sandmann expelled? There is precedent — there was a successful campaign to to get his original college acceptance revoked immediately following the incident, which is why that polite young man ended up at Transylvania U instead of somewhere more prestigious... pursued multiple lawsuits against media outlets over reporting about a viral video, which showed a Jan. 18, 2019, encounter in Washington, D.C., involving then-16-year-old Sandmann and a Native American man, Nathan Phillips.
Professional Indian activist with a habit of aggressive drum chanting and claiming he was the subject of racist attacks that inevitably turn out to have been his fault. He also is not a Vietnam war vet, though he did wear the uniform while repairing refrigerators until the Marines were able to get rid of him. | A 2-1 decision Wednesday by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati supported the July 2022 ruling of a federal district court judge in Kentucky, who said the media outlets — Gannett, The New York Times |