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I'm curious if it will get reduced or overturned on appeal.

• lalaland1125 4y ago
  Unlikely. Appeals are always a long shot, especially for civil cases.
• xnyan 4y ago
  In theory the law is applied without personal bias, but of course all legal officers are humans and in practice personal bias can be very relevant. The man propagated a repugnant and objectively false slander, that parents of murdered children were engaged in a performative coverup, which lead to countless death threats and other indignities against the parents. I everyone should get fair treatment under the law, but I think it’s almost impossible to imagine the nature of what he did will not influence the outcome of his trial and appeals. Also, civil cases have lower standards of proof and far fewer opportunities for a judgment to be appealed than criminal.