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  Gawker was trash, and certainly deserves their fate. But a lawyer who is getting paid their hourly rate for their services tends to be less assertive about settling over those who work on contingency.
  Also, fun fact, part of the reason why the judge upheld the jury awarding more than what Hogan was asking for, was due to Gawkers CEO, Nick Denton, claiming his stock shares in the company were worth around $80 million alone. When in reality, his stock shares were worth around $30 million!
  And sad there are people out there who think it's fine to let very wealthy third parties fund lawsuits against people they don't like.
context: Rudy and Republicans say they have all this evidence and Hunter is so guilty blah blah
  They didn't do shit with it
  I think they like the idea of him "getting away with it." Keeps the base agitated, like Butt Hurr E Males! >
  
  Can he sue for the release of pictures of his privates? Didn’t Hulk Hogan? >
  
  Hogan won too >
  
  Peter Thiel won really. >
  
  Yes, people like bezos claimed that thiel was attacking media he didnt like over the whole thing because thiel funded hogans lawyers. Big woop.
  Hogan would have won regardless >
  
  Na, Hogan wouldn't have. He was dirt poor and no lawyer was going to go after Gawker Media on pro-bono until they won and got a cut of the payout. Chances are any lawyer he managed to get to do that, would've pushed him to settle for far less.
  He only won because Thiel secretly funded his lawyers. Which, ya know, is sorta dangerous. That lawsuit set a precedent that third parties can fund civil suits to hurt their opponents. >
  
  Sure, the contents of the case had nothing to do with the jury awarding more than what was sought by hogan, it was only because of thiel. Sure
  /s