Casper Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 http://www.examiner.com/article/zimmerman-s-lawsuit-against-al-sharpton-nbc-and-the-martin-family-attorneys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 hell yes! Fuck all of them. Most of the time I think suing is stupid but in this case I hope Zimmerman gets paid a fat amount 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
standout Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 i'm not one for sue happy america but i fucking hope he wins. Maybe this will be a turning point and stop people and news organizations from doing what they did to this guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4DAIVI PAI2K5 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 I hope he wins and america wakes the fuck up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4DAIVI PAI2K5 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 He should go after the famous dude who tweeted his address also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkow97 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Does the article say what damages he's claiming?You can't sue without actual damages. I don't see this going anywhere unless he can demonstrate that he was damaged financially by the news media, and not simply by his own actions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkow97 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 All the article says is "IF Zimmerman was treated for emotional trauma," he'll receive compensation for treatment and damages. But that means he needs to have seen a doctor and demonstrated a physical manifestation of symptoms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izhe4rael Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Let the OR soap opera begin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew95gt Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Good for Zimmerman, hope he gets something for the witch hunt those folks started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gen3flygirl Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Does the article say what damages he's claiming?You can't sue without actual damages. I don't see this going anywhere unless he can demonstrate that he was damaged financially by the news media, and not simply by his own actions.How about the slandering of his character? I am not sure about his financial or job situation but do you think anyone would hire him with all of this going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Does the article say what damages he's claiming?You can't sue without actual damages. I don't see this going anywhere unless he can demonstrate that he was damaged financially by the news media, and not simply by his own actions.The furor meant he had to quit his job and go into hiding for his own safety. Demonstrable financial harm here would be the difference in cost associated with travel between his place of hiding and the court (versus traveling from his home), costs of lodging where he is now, any security measure he has had to implement (bodyguards, securing the building he is living in etc).Loss of income from to having to quit his job due to his safety being jeapordized by the actions that form the basis of the tort is definitely recoverable if the judge so rules.Intentional infliction of emotional distress is not something you can put a dollar figure on. This lawsuit is a little premature - it will stand much better chance of success if he is found not guilty. Even more so if the case is dismissed. Nobody wants to give this guy money then see him subsequently convicted.Spike Lee needs to get sued too - he's the guy who retweeted a child's home address (Wrong George Zimmerman) and drove a family from their home due to death threats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 http://www.examiner.com/article/zimmerman-s-lawsuit-against-al-sharpton-nbc-and-the-martin-family-attorneysThat article has almost as much bias as typos. Having said that, I believe that the basic concept is solid - that NBC, Sharpton and the Martin attorneys have created a racial element to this case that never existed. I believe that they did this for their own personal gain, and ignored the damage that is being done to Zimmerman, the community and to the coutry as a whole. I also know that uninvolved people are suffering physical assaults as a result of that racial tension - those people should sue too.I don't know if Zimmerman is guilty of murder, however there is no evidence of any racial component (and overwhelming evidence that he is not a racist at all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Tough case to prove, as there is no corpse left behind when you have emotional distress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeefZah Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 That's not a news article so much as it is an editorial, and nowhere does it actually say that Zimmerman has filed suit. It describes the tort offenses that Zimmerman might base a lawsuit on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiggy74 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 ^^^^ This.This article is editorial supposition, to date there is no lawsuit from Zimmerman against those described in this article. It's all just a "what if". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 That's not a news article so much as it is an editorial, and nowhere does it actually say that Zimmerman has filed suit. It describes the tort offenses that Zimmerman might base a lawsuit on.Interesting. The badly-written opinion article in the OP (written by Zimmermans' personal cheerleader, apparently) said we was "reportedly" going to sue, but gave no cite or reference to substantiate that assertion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashweights Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 He should go after the famous dude who tweeted his address also.Spike Lee, and absolutely. The elderly couple who were driven out of their home by the angry mob he unleashed on them wrongfully should sue him too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exarch Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Murder and money! Scandal of the century...Give it a few years and this will be the title of a documentary presented on the investigation discovery channel.Haters gunna hate, im obviously gunna get bashed for my opinion on this, but I just want to say who are you to judge what I think? If this was Arizona you would be more polite Im j/k bring in the basing, I have nothing better to do right now than argue my OPINION.Zimmermann, I hope you burn in hell :sheepfucker: yes im atheist, no I dont believe in heaven/hell. Its a figure of speach for those of you that follow me so closely on what I have said in other threads(you know who you are) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheech Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Does the article say what damages he's claiming?You can't sue without actual damages. I don't see this going anywhere unless he can demonstrate that he was damaged financially by the news media, and not simply by his own actions.Bingo. Scruit's correct to a point, but at the end of the day you have to be physically (easy to prove) or SEVERLY mentally damaged (not easy to prove) to reach the point where remuneration is in order.Unless....^^^^ This.This article is editorial supposition, to date there is no lawsuit from Zimmerman against those described in this article. It's all just a "what if"....it was all bullshit to begin with and an effort by some hack to fill column space.However, now that the conversation is out... You can just ask the Duke Lacrosse boys ('member them?) how far they got suing Nancy Grace and CNN. Spoiler alert: Nada. Their civil case is still ongoing against the city of Durham and Duke University, however. As for their accuser, Crystal Mangum? In jail, on trial for the murder of her boyfriend in 2011.Here's one more, this one with even closer parallels. Remember Tawana Brawley? Here's a refresher. One of the accused "perps" in this case, Steven Pagones, sued Sharpton and the other major talking heads for defamation. He ended up getting $395,000 (he asked for 395M) almost 10 YEARS after the original incident. Sharpton paid his end just like he paid all the others, through his "foundation".In short, this guy's going to get bupkiss if anything at all, and if he is lucky enough to get anything it's going to take decades to sort out and collect. Tack that fact onto the fact that he would be suing huge media magnates that have basically infinite legal resources, and he's better off going outside to yell at a cloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 lol examiner.com the pinnacle of fact checking and journalistic integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted April 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Interesting. The badly-written opinion article in the OP (written by Zimmermans' personal cheerleader, apparently) said we was "reportedly" going to sue, but gave no cite or reference to substantiate that assertion.Agreed. I mistakenly assumed "reportedly" meant it was happening. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFM Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Interested to see how that might go vis a vis a counter civil suit for wrongful death. Might not be prudent... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 I see a made for TV movie in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkow97 Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 I'm not so sure "I had to quit my job" is going to just be an accepted "damage."If he'd been fired, or his employer vouches for the fact that they were aware of threats to his safety while on the job, then he's got a case; but quitting because you're scared isn't something Al Sharpton proximately caused. Besides, unless there is a direct call to violence, you can't punish the speaker for the actions of others. Al Sharpton's opinion is protected speech until he actually suggests that people hurt or harass Zimmerman. Simply making him look bad with information that the news is reporting isn't a crime. If it were, then news media would be getting sued all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Damages? My thumb hurts from turning the channel every time their bigoted fucking faces appear.Somebody quote me before I puss out and and edit this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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