Twelve long years after the case was launched, the six person jury decided that Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg have defamed Michael Mann, but awarded Mann one whole dollar in damages, because he hadn’t been able to prove he suffered any damage at all. Remarkably, though, the jurors felt the skeptics had been so malicious they added punitive damages too. Usually these are limited to a mere four or five times the compensatory damage, but this time it was decided Simberg should pay $1,000 and Mark Steyn $1 million. It sets a new record.
According to Law.com
punitive or exemplary damages are saved for truly dreadful acts:
exemplary damages n. often called punitive damages… are damages requested and/or awarded in a lawsuit when the defendant’s willful acts were malicious, violent, oppressive, fraudulent, wanton or grossly reckless. These damages are awarded both as a punishment and to set a public example.
So the jury agrees that Mark Steyn did no material harm to Mann but criticizing climate scientists is itself an unforgivably evil thing.
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Now we are being told what cars we can buy!
“Green Energy”..
The stupidity of the ignorant, lying, soul destroying Left.
The entire #ClimateChange scam can be summarised thus: “…trust me, bro…
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1635548803502678019
Alex Antic:
The Liberal Party must return to core values protecting freedom of speech and choice and taking the climate alarmists head on. Watch as I discuss with Sharri Markson on Sky News:-
