Guilty! Sarah Jones, Edgewood, Kentucky (arrested Mar 2012)

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  1. TMP

    TMP Himself

    Arizona Daily Sun: Mistrial in ex-cheerleader's libel lawsuit (Jan 25 2013)

    Jurors couldn't decide whether two lewd posts about a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader were substantially true or not, leading a federal judge to declare a mistrial Friday in her $11 million defamation lawsuit against a gossip website ... U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman declared the mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict over two days of deliberations following the three-day trial in northern Kentucky ... Jurors did unanimously agree that thedirty.com's operator, Nik Richie, did not act with malice when he posted the submissions. That means jurors would not have awarded Jones any money had they all been able to agree that the posts were substantially false.​
     
    TMP, Jan 27, 2013
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    News Readers The Paperboy

    She won a $338,000 judgment in the retrial, which is now under appeal. This is expected to be a landmark case in this area.

    Sarah Jones Lawsuit Against The Dirty: Will Her Winning Judgment Be Upheld?

    The fate of former NFL cheerleader Sarah Jones' federal defamation lawsuit against celebrity gossip website The Dirty remains up in the air, according to reports. Sarah Jones won the suit and a $338,000 judgment last summer. The verdict was so unprecedented, however, that it prompted some of the country's largest companies to file briefs asking the appellate court to reverse the decision. Now, it looks destined to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.​

    Continue reading...

    http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2...-against-the-dirty-will-her-winning-judgment/
     
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