Quote:Gawker has already essentially won this case in the Appellate Court. Here's a detailed description of the why.

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2016/03/8594339/jury-awards-hulk-hogan-115-million-gawker-looks-appeal'>http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2016/03/8594339/jury-awards-hulk-hogan-115-million-gawker-looks-appeal</a>

Not really... from your link... "While the sheer size of the judgment is unexpected, the fact that the jury decided in favor of Hogan is not. Gawker has long anticipated that it would lose the jury trial
, and has been preparing for an appeal.

<p style="font-family:'ff-tisa-web-pro', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">“It’s probably difficult to win the case entirely, outright, knowing the jury that we’re facing, but it’s possible. More likely than not, we end up with a really small judgment that we can easily carry and we appeal that,” Gawker president and general counsel Heather Dietrick told employees during a staff meeting in October.

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<p style="font-family:'ff-tisa-web-pro', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The trial was always going to be an uphill battle for Gawker. The company’s legal justification for posting the tape — that the sex tape was a newsworthy matter of public concern
and therefore Gawker’s publication of it was protected by the First Amendment — was always unlikely to sway a civilian jury, even if it is reasonably well-supported by Florida case law.". 

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<p style="font-family:'ff-tisa-web-pro', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Now another part of the story is too long so I'll paraphrase it...The article says that Florida law requires the judgment to be paid prior to the appeal, but Gawker does not have that money. They can petition the court to pay only $50mm of it as another state statute requires, but it must have approval of the court that issued the judgment ruling, which seems unlikely as well...

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<p style="font-family:'ff-tisa-web-pro', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The last resort is to petition the court who ordered the judgment  to order a stay on the payment of the judgment which is not likely either...

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<p style="font-family:'ff-tisa-web-pro', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">It's unlikely the judge will put a stay on the judgment and Gawker doesn't have the money to pay it either, without one or the other happening, the appeal can not be heard and will be dismissed...

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<p style="font-family:'ff-tisa-web-pro', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The other part of this story is that Gawker claims that the tape is "newsworthy and a concern for the public"...I can not fathom that a stolen sex tape is a "concern for the public"... 

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