Anonymous ID: f77a42 March 5, 2019, 3:35 p.m. No.5526576   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/student-viral-video-suing-washington-post/583972/

 

Sandmann’s case may turn on whether the “actual malice” standard established by the landmark 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan applies. The key question here for a judge to decide could be whether Sandmann is considered a public figure, with a much higher burden of proof, or a private one—just another high-school student who, through no fault of his own, found himself in a maelstrom. The experts are divided over how that’s likely to be decided.