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Kentucky Teen Settles Lawsuit Against Washington Post Over D.C. Encounter

A Kentucky teen and The Washington Post have settled a lawsuit over the newspaper’s coverage of his encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last year. The teen’s lawyers said on social media Friday that …

Kentucky Teen’s $250M Defamation Suit Against Washington Post Dismissed

A federal judge has thrown out a Kentucky teen’s lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of falsely labeling him a racist following an encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial. Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High …

High School Student at Lincoln Memorial Protest Sues Washington Post

A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native American activist in a January videotaped incident at the …

Judge Rules News Outlets’ Use of Photo on Twitter Violated Copyright

A U.S. judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big tests of intellectual property law involving social media. Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post infringed …