The original lawsuit was filed in late March by two black women who worked in the network's payroll department, and a third colleague later joined it. (fortune.com)
In an email to Fortune, she pointed out that the state had asked in its original lawsuit that «the court to prohibit the company from doing future business with the state of Oregon.» (fortune.com)
Soon after Hulk Hogan brought his original lawsuits in 2012, three state appeals court judges and a federal judge repeatedly ruled that Gawker's post was newsworthy under the First Amendment. (recode.net)