Lone dissent rips appeals court for refusing to revive Nick Sandmann’s libel case against media: He ‘did nothing more than stand still and smile’

Nick Sandmann, who at the time was a Covington Catholic student, appears in a screengrab taken from a video filed as an exhibit in federal court.

Nick Sandmann, who at the time was a Covington Catholic student, appears in a screengrab taken from a video filed as an exhibit in federal court.

A federal appellate panel in a 2-1 decision Wednesday denied former Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann’s bid to revive libel claims against mainstream media outlets over their coverage of his 2019 encounter with Native American activist Nathan Phillips in Washington, D.C. at the March for Life.

In July 2022, Senior U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman, a Jimmy Carter appointee sitting in the Eastern District of Kentucky, granted summary judgment and threw out Sandmann’s lawsuit, concluding that the media outlets which covered Sandmann and Phillips’ face-to-face were “covering a matter of great public interest, and they reported Phillips’s first-person view of what he experienced” — that Sandmann had “blocked [his] way and wouldn’t allow me to retreat.”

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