A federal judge this week partially reopened the $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post filed by high school student Nick Sandmann.
The news comes after the Kentucky judge dismissed the lawsuit in July on First Amendment grounds. It was brought by 16-year-old Nick, one of the students from Covington Catholic High School who, in January, were confronted by a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The encounter prompted a whirlwind of media coverage, much of which, Nick alleged, was defamatory.
