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CNN Settles Covington Catholic Lawsuit Out Of Court For Undisclosed Amount

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A group of Black Hebrew Israelites had provoked the confrontation by slinging racial slurs at the students as they were waiting for their bus. Video showed it was Nathan Phillips who approached and confronted the students with his drum. Similar lawsuits against The Washington Post and NBC are still ongoing. -GEG

CNN on Tuesday settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor.

Fox 19 first reported that CNN settled with Sandmann for an undisclosed amount. The $250 million defamation suit sought damages for the "emotional distress Nicholas and his family suffered" in the fallout of the network's reporting.


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