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Spears Wins $4.75M Defamation Case | Birmingham News
Published 2 days, 12 hours ago
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Former Alabama basketball player Kai Spears wins a landmark defamation case against the New York Times, receiving $4.75 million after jury initially awarded $9.25 million — reduced by Alabama’s punitive damage caps — marking the first time the Times lost such a case since 1964, following false reporting that falsely linked him to a murder scene.
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