The size of the judgment reflects the magnitude of the harassment. If the NYTimes ran front page articles every day insinuating you were a liar and trying to u

The size of the judgment reflects the magnitude of the harassment. If the NYTimes ran front page articles every day insinuating you were a liar and trying to use your child’s death for some shadowy agenda, or had even faked that child’s death, and went on doing this to the point that strangers began to threaten you, you had to leave your home, switch states, etc… All this while you are grieving your murdered child… If a publication libeled you to that extent, under those circumstances, yes, I think that publication owes you major money. And then I would multiply that sizable judgment by the number of parents defamed, so however big that number is, its’s now 20x larger.