HUSTLER ANNOUNCES FREE SPEECH VICTORY
Beverly Hills, CA – May 1, 2012 – Hustler Magazine and its publisher, Larry Flynt, today achieved another victory in defense of the First Amendment. In a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the court threw out a jury award of punitive damages in a lawsuit brought by Maureen Toffoloni, the mother of Nancy Benoit, the murdered wife of professional wrestler Chris Benoit. The lawsuit alleged that in publishing nude photographs of Ms. Benoit as part of an article about her murder, Hustler violated her right of publicity.
At trial in an Atlanta federal court, the jury awarded Ms. Benoit’s estate approximately $19.6 million in punitive damages for Hustler’s publication of Benoit’s images. The trial judge reduced that amount to the Georgia statutory maximum of $250,000, which the court of appeals decision vacated.
On appeal, Hustler argued that even if the nude photographs were not newsworthy, Flynt and his staff honestly believed that their publication was newsworthy and protected by the First Amendment. As a result, any award of punitive damages was unjustified. In agreeing with Hustler, the 11th Circuit panel found that Ms. Toffoloni had failed to refute the testimony of numerous witnesses establishing that Hustler’s staff honestly believed in the newsworthiness of the images, and that “no reasonable jury could find by clear and convincing evidence that punitive damages were warranted.”
May 2nd, 2012 at 9:51 pm
http://gonzonewsanddisasters.com/2012/05/02/in-recognition-of/
Nice to see you still fighting the good fight Larry. I’ve recently been besieged by a coven of sex industry hating cunts with law degrees. They are persecuting the publisher I contract to because he has an OBC advert for a strip club in our business magazines here in NZ. I took them to task on my blog and they dug themselves a hole with the quotes-extremist wimmin, ya gotta love ‘em for irrationality mixed with venom! Anyway, naturally in light of such a situation, you sprung to mind. My compliments.
May 3rd, 2012 at 5:50 am
I LOVE YOU LARRY! Keep fighting the system and WINNING! You have every right to say whatever you want to say. Kick their asses in and out of court my brother, ‘cuz WE the PEOPLE got your back and the First Amendment has you covered. Good job!
May 3rd, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Good job…another win for the first amendment. What would we do without Larry Flynt to fight the good fight for all of us? We would all be up shit creek without a paddle.
PLP
May 10th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
LARRY :
I KNOW YOU GOT YOUR PORK SELF SHOT UP AND ARE ALL PISSED OFF… BUT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WERE UP TO …
WHY DON’T YOU STAND TALL AND DO A COURAGEOUS , RISK-TAKER , REAL AMERICAN GOOD GUY THING ?!@#$
LIKE WHAT ?
LIKE GO CHARGE IN GUNS BLASTIN’ OUT TO ARIZONA AND REINFORCE SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO .
THE JEW-NEGRO UNDERWORLD – NOW OUT OF CONTROL IN DC – IS HELL BENT , FOAMING AT THE MOUTH IN A FRENZY OF OVERTHROW AND SABOTAGE ACTIVITY .
THEIR ORGY – THAT GOT YOUR ATTENTION ! – OF ATTACKS ON AMERICAN DEFENDERS TAKING THE POINT AGAINST WHAT , NOW, IS CLEARLY A GENICIDAL OVERTHROW OF OUR WHITE NATION .
I AM OF THE OPINION THAT YOU ARE NOT DISLOYAL TO OUR WHITE NATION … !!!
PUT SOME OF THAT WANK MONEY WHERE IT’LL FUCK THE ENEMY WITHIN !
LET ME SEE ACTION TO THRILL ….!
May 15th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Hey Larry,
Congrats on the legal victory! Gotta love that you’re out there fighting the good fight. This opens up the doors now for you to publish the naked pictures of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro now that have been circling the net for a few years now. (You know.. Barak’s mother) Being an election year, these pictures are definitely news worthy, relevant, and above all else, scandalous.
If you need a copy of them, you have my email address here on the post. I’d gladly forward them to you.
May 18th, 2012 at 9:35 am
So publishing photos of a DEAD woman is cool? Out of all those beautiful girls you have on your payroll you found it necessary to put photos of a DEAD person in your mag? The woman was DEAD therefore could never agree to be in that mag since the guy that took the pictures is the one that sold them to Hustler, not benoit. This makes me sick, along with all you people that are agreeing with flynt. SOOOO many beautiful women in this world and you have to go this route just to make a few bucks..That was the only reason. Just to make a few bucks. I was a regular buyer of this mag, never again..Lost one customer and when the news gets out world wide on social media your screwed
May 19th, 2012 at 12:54 am
I AM SO PROUD YOU ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR WHAT A REAL FIGHT IS FOR, NOT LIKE ALL THIS STUPID NONSENSE. IM WITH YA ALL THE WAY MAN!!! HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH AND KEEP ON GETTIN THEM, HELL YEA BABY!!!! LARRY, I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR TRIUMPHS SINCE I WAS ABOUT 18, THE FIRST TIME I REALLY KNEW HOW YOUR LIFE BEGAN IN ALL THIS WAS WHEN I SAW THE MOVIE, “THE PEOPLE vs LARRY FLYNT” IT TOUCHED MY HEART IN MANY WAYS. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.
May 23rd, 2012 at 10:54 am
Just to let you know that the barrage is coming to let you all know that your views are pile of tyrannical outrageous shit. Your latest display on SE Cupp is so far out of bounds that you folks need to know that you have stirred the pot beyond recovery. Now you can expect the worst…You can’t even imagine!
May 24th, 2012 at 7:29 pm
http://larryflynt.com/larrysworld/larrysstatements/larry-flynt-defends-ad-parody-featuring-s-e-cupp/
May 25th, 2012 at 8:31 am
Everytime Larry speaks the toilet flushes!!
June 15th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
LOOK , LAWRENCE OF INSANIA ,, CLEAR THE PUSS OUT OF YOUR BRAIN , SMUT BUDDY !
DROP THE TERM “BIRTH CONTOL” IT”S DECEPTIVE , PORKNESS …
THE ACCURATE WORD REPRESENTATION IS :
BIRTH REDUCTION !!!!
NOW , PROFFESSOR OF PORNOLOGY , WHY THE FUCKING BASTARD HELL DO WE WANT REDUCTION OF OUR WHITE RACE IN MY GODDAMNED WHITE COUNTRY !!!!
THINK !!!! WE DON’T !!!!!!! WHO DOES !!!???? CLUE # 1 : OUR ENEMIES … ENEMIES …!!!!!
IT’S WARFARE … IT’S WARFARE ..OR DO YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT , WHO ARE YOU … wHAT ARE YOU UP TO !!!1
WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON , ARE YOU JUST SIMPLE AND UNABLE TO SEE BEYOND THE THE TROJAN HORSE”S ASS !!!
IF YOU HATE THIS WHITE NATION AND WHITE PEOPLE , ARE A COLLABORATOR WITH OUR NEGRO AND SEMETIC BROWN ENEMJJIES WITHIN , THEN AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE , YOUR ASSETS MUST BE TAKEN FROM YOU AS WEAPONS OF ANY KIND WOULD BE FROM A SUBVERSIVE.
PROVE YOURSELF – - ONE WAY OR STHE OTHER … AND GET A GODDAMNED CLUE !!!!
June 21st, 2012 at 12:47 pm
F JOE THE PLUMBER !!!