WaPo, Covington Kid Lawsuit Re-Instated

Nicholas Sandman

A federal judge has reopened the $250 million defamation case filed by a Covington Catholic High School student against The Washington Post.

The lawsuit was orignally thrown out in July, according to WLWT-TV5.

The lawsuit can move forward but the focus is much more specific. In the lawsuit, Nick Sandmann accuses The Washington Post of libel, saying stories written about the January incident in Washington, D.C., shed a negative light on him, which led to him being disgraced on social media.

Attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of Sandmann and his family. It was the first in a series of lawsuits filed against several media outlets.

The lawsuit claims that the Post "wrongfully targeted and bullied Nicholas because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red 'Make America Great Again' souvenir cap on a school field trip to the January 18 March for Life in Washington, D.C."

The lawsuit adds that the Post engaged in "a modern-day form of McCarthyism" and "ignored basic journalist standards."