The case follows a viral interaction between a Kentucky high school student and a Native American activist.
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post over its coverage of an interaction between a Kentucky high school student and a Native American activist on the National Mall, that gained national attention after the video went viral.
Bertelsman wrote that though Phillips' claim may have been inaccurate, the Post had a right to publish it. The Post couldn't be sued for defamation simply if some of its reporting was inaccurate, he wrote, rather it had to both false and defamatory. Sandmann sued the Post for $250 million claiming"modern-day MacCarthyism" after the newspaper covered an interaction between Sandmann and his classmates and Native American activists on the National Mall last winter.
The Covington students later said they were first accosted by hecklers while waiting to leave the Mall, causing tensions to rise. When a group of Native American activists from the Indigenous Peoples March that day approached them, Sandmann said he tried to stay motionless to keep the situation calm.
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