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- Mar 11, 2016
I must be missing something here, I see a protective order so boilerplate it got approved by the judge the same day it was filed but noting indicating a settlement - paragraph 7 includes discusses disclosure to people (e.g. juror profilers) who would be unnecessary if the case got settled while paragraph 15 mentions 'exhaustion of appeals' as one of the events that could obligate the parties to destroy privileged information.Well be surprised no longer sir, because while the rest of the world was busy, this case appeared to reach a quiet end.
Link to case records:
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/47735758/WATSON_v_Blaze_Media_LLC
I predicted a settlement by summer, and by God we got there. After The Blaze failed in their attempt to keep the embarrassing discovery out of the public record, and not wanting all of the shit Elijah Schaffer did that they did nothing about being broadcast far and wide, they came up with some number big enough to get Watson to settle, and on July 1st they notified the judge that they had done so, along with a joint motion to keep the terms private.
An extremely predictable outcome, and I am forever saddened that Schaffer's lunatic antics won't become part of the public record, but at least the Blaze had to pay out as a penalty for allowing it to go on.
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