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      • In March 2016, the jury found Gawker Media liable and awarded Bollea $115 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages. Three months after the verdict, Gawker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and put itself up for sale.
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  2. Bollea v. Gawker was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Pinellas County, Florida, delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016. In the suit, Terry Gene Bollea, known professionally as Hulk Hogan, sued Gawker Media, publisher of the Gawker website, and several Gawker employees and Gawker-affiliated entities ...

  3. Feb 23, 2018 · Bollea v. Gawker isn’t just one of the most consequential lawsuits in the history of modern American media. It’s also probably the strangest. In 2016, Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler, won...

  4. Mar 2, 2016 · Case Summary. A Florida jury awarded former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan more than $140 million in his invasion of privacy suit against Gawker Media. The award includes a $25.1 million punitive verdict against the online media giant, its founder, and former editor for their publication of a sex tape involving the celebrity.

  5. Bollea sought $100 million in damages. In March 2016, the jury found Gawker Media liable and awarded Bollea $115 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages. Three months after the verdict, Gawker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and put itself up for sale.

  6. Dec 11, 2016 · In the plaintiff’s view, Gawker’s disclosure violated the rights of Terry Bollea. (The formal title of the lawsuit is Bollea v. Gawker.)

  7. Feb 25, 2016 · Summary. A Florida jury awarded former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan more than $140 million in his invasion of privacy suit against Gawker Media. The award includes a $25.1 million punitive verdict against the online media giant, its founder, and former editor for their publication of a sex tape involving the celebrity.

  8. Get Gawker Media, LLC v. Bollea, 129 So. 3d 1196 (2014), Florida District Court of Appeal, case facts, key issues, and holdings and reasonings online today. Written and curated by real attorneys at Quimbee.

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