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SANDMANN v. NEW YORK TIMES CO.

Nos. 22-5734/5735/5736/5737/5738.

78 F.4th 319 (2023)

Nicholas SANDMANN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY (22-5734); CBS News, Incorporated, ViacomCBS, Incorporated, and CBS Interactive, Incorporated (22-5735); ABC News, Inc., ABC News Interactive, Incorporated, and Walt Disney Company (22-5736); Rolling Stone, LLC and Penske Media Corporation (22-5737); Gannett Company, Inc. and Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC (22-5738), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 16, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Todd V. McMurtry , HEMMER DEFRANK WESSELS, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, for Appellant. Nathan Siegel , DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Todd V. McMurtry , Jeffrey A. Standen , J. Will Huber , HEMMER DEFRANK WESSELS, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, for Appellant. Nathan Siegel , Meenakshi Krishnan , DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP, Washington, D.C., Robert B. Craig , TAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP, Covington, Kentucky, Dana R. Green , THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, New York, New York, Darren W. Ford , GRAYDON HEAD & RITCHEY LLP, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, John C. Greiner , GRAYDON HEAD & RITCHEY LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio, Natalie J. Spears , Gregory R. Naron , DENTONS US LLP, Chicago, Illinois, Jessica Laurin Meek , DENTONS BINGHAM GREENEBAUM LLP, Indianapolis, Indiana, Kevin T. Shook , FROST BROWN TODD LLC, Columbus, Ohio, Ryan W. Goellner , FROST BROWN TODD LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio, Jason P. Renzelmann , FROST BROWN TODD LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, Michael P. Abate , William R. Adams , KAPLAN JOHNSON ABATE & BIRD LLP, Louisville, Kentucky, Michael J. Grygiel , Cynthia E. Neidl , Candra M. Connelly , GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP, Albany, New York, for Appellees.

STRANCH, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which DAVIS, J., joined. GRIFFIN, J. (pp. 333-45), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

OPINION

On January 18, 2019, then-sixteen-year-old Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates had an interaction with a Native American man named Nathan Phillips by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Video of the incident went viral, and national news organizations, including the five Defendants (Appellees...

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