New York Times Defeated In High-Profile Defamation Suit

The New York Times was dealt a major courtroom defeat Thursday after an Alabama jury found the newspaper defamed former University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears and ordered it to pay him $9.25 million in damages. Spears was an 18-year-old freshman walk-on for the Crimson Tide when a March 2023 Times report wrongly identified […]