Beckley attorney Stephen P. New and Associates secure $9.25 million federal jury verdict against New York Times in defamation lawsuit

The case centered on a 2023 New York Times article that reported Spears, then an 18-year-old freshman basketball player at the University of Alabama, was present at the scene of a deadly shooting. Spears maintained he was not there. His father, then Marshall University athletic director Christian Spears, contacted Beckley attorney Stephen P. New within an hour of the article's publication. #WOAY