... "merely" went looking for reasons to sue Gawker and happened to find a big one. He has funded multiple suits against Gawker. He wasn't giving a friend som

... "merely" went looking for reasons to sue Gawker and happened to find a big one. He has funded multiple suits against Gawker. He wasn't giving a friend some money, he was explicitly searching out cases to take down a media company. That's a precedent.