He was seeking $24 million in damages, but he told The Daily Caller last week that he is no longer pursuing the suit. Johnson originally filed the suit in Missouri, then re-filed it in California, though Gawker says that they haven’t been served yet. The articles, which were thinly sourced and made wild allegations about Johnson, satirized Johnson’s reputation for publishing wild claims based on thin sourcing. Conservative blogger Chuck Johnson sued Gawker for defamation and invasion of privacy after the site published articles about his past behavior. Thomas is seeking $74,000 in damages.Ĭharles C. Former Yahoo employee Teresa Thomas sued Gawker, Denton, Cook and Nicholas Thompson (former Gawker writer now at Business Insider) for defamation and invasion of privacy after the site reported in 2007 that she dated the head of Yahoo’s media operation and was then pushed out of the company after they broke up. Huon is seeking at least $100 million in damages. On May 31, Huon and Gawker made their respective cases during a hearing at Seventh Circuit appeals court. Huon and Above the Law then settled out of court, and Huon appealed the judge’s ruling dismissing the claims against Gawker. A federal judge dismissed his claims against Gawker, but allowed his claims against Above the Law to proceed. Chicago lawyer Meanith Huon sued Gawker, Denton, Gabrielle Darbyshire (former Gawker COO) and Irin Carmon (former Jezebel writer now at MSNBC) for defamation after Jezebel published a post about him suing the legal blog Above the Law for an article that Above the Law published about a lawsuit where he was a defendant. Ayyadurai is seeking at least $35 million in damages. The case has been filed in Massachusetts state court, but Gawker says it hasn’t been served yet. Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email, sued Gawker, Denton, Biddle and Gawker executive editor John Cook for libel after the site reported that he did not actually invent email. Terrill is seeking at least $10 million in damages.Īyyadurai v Gawker Media LLC, et al. Gawker has filed a motion to dismiss the case. Freelance reporter Ashley Terrill sued Gawker, Denton and Sam Biddle (a former Gawker writer now at The Intercept) for defamation after the site published an article about her investigation into dating app Tinder and her apparent belief that one of the co-founders of the app was harassing her. (Gawker denies doing so and the Enquirer says that Gawker was not its source.) Pamela Campbell, the same judge who presided over the first Hogan lawsuit, is also presiding over this one, but Gawker has gone to the Second District Court of Appeal to get Campbell removed from the case.Īshley Terrill v Gawker Media LLC, et al. Hogan accused Gawker of secretly leaking a confidential transcript of one of his sex tapes that included racist language to the National Enquirer. This is a second Hogan case, filed just last month. Gawker is appealing the case to Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal, but was forced to file for Chapter 11 to prevent Hogan from seizing the company’s assets to collect on the judgment.īollea v Buchwald, et al. The case went to trial in March, resulting in a $130 million judgment against the company, a $10 million judgment against Denton and a $100,000 judgment against former editor A.J. Daulerio for invasion of privacy after ran an excerpt of one of his sex tapes. Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan sued Gawker, Denton and former editor A.J. This is the infamous Hulk Hogan invasion of privacy case. Daulerio.Ĭourt filings related to Gawker’s Chapter 11 case list some of the current lawsuits against the company It is unclear how many of these cases might be funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel who, it was revealed, has looked for plaintiffs to sue Gawker and to cover their legal fees.īollea v Gawker Media LLC, et al. The judge has not done so yet, but he did issue a temporary restraining order to prevent Hogan from seizing assets from Denton and former editor A.J. To protect Denton and the employees, Gawker asked the bankruptcy court judge to freeze the litigation against Denton and other employees.
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