Jury awards ex-college basketball player $9.25M in New York Times defamation case

A former University of Alabama basketball player sued The New York Times over a 2023 story it ran reporting he was at the scene of a deadly shooting. A jury awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times slandered a former Alabama college basketball player by inaccurately reporting that he was at the scene of a deadly shooting in Tuscaloosa. The jury delivered its verdict after a trial in the U.S [1].

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1. fox26houston.com · Jury awards ex-college basketball player $9.25M in New York Times defamation case Aug 21, 2026

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