Supreme Court Won't Hear Nicholas Sandmann's Appeal

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the defamation appeal of a former Kentucky Catholic high school student who sued multiple media outlets for their coverage of his standoff with a Native American protester in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

In an order list, the Supreme Court let stand a lower court’s ruling to dismiss the $1.25 billion libel lawsuit that former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann filed against The New York Times, ABC News, CBS News, and Gannett.

Sandmann, who was 16 at the time and in D.C. for the annual “March of Life” event, also announced on X that his petition had been denied.

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Nicholas Sandmann’s Appeal

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