Sandman still has several defendants to go. For example, he also sued the WAPO for $250 million.
Attys Barnes & Murphy have also filed defamation suits on behalf 8 of the other unnamed Covington students (they are suing as John Does), with named defendants Elizabeth Warren, Deb Haaland, Ana Navarro, Maggie Haberman, Matthew Dowd, Kathy Griffin, Adam Edelen, Kevin Kruse, Shaun King, Clara Jeffery, Jodi Jacobson and Reza Aslan.
By pure coincidence of timing, Reza Aslan was finally served with the complaint just today. The action was filed back in August but the service people had trouble finding him. Aslan is an "author, producer, and show host" who tweeted that Sandmann's face was "punchable." Despite repeated requests for him to take the tweet down, he just left it up. However, he finally took the tweet down today not coincidentally after he (literally) got served.
The damages in these actions against the individual defendants sought are "in an amount not less than $15,000 but not more than $50,000 against each," which comes to between $135,000 and $450,000 per plaintiff.
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