Courthouse News service is reporting Hustler magazine must pay $375,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for publishing nude photos of Nancy Benoit following her murder by her husband and WWE wrestler Chris Benoit. The story notes that the jury in the case awarded the family $19.2 million, but Georgia's cap of $250,000 on punitive damages forced the judge to lower the award.

Shore's Slant:A couple of things here. First, my apologies for not picking this up on Friday. It appears everybody missed it. But that also goes to my second point, which is, I thought this was dead. The last ruling I heard on this was that it was a First Amendment issue and was dead. Color me surprised.

I would say congratulations to her family because I think Larry Flynt is a vile and despicable human. But I also think this violates the First Amendment so I'm split on this decision.

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