Bo Jackson was awarded $21 million in a civil go well with after his niece and nephew tried to extort him.
The 2-sport legend filed a grievance final April towards siblings Thomas Lee Anderson and Erica M. Andrews, accusing his niece and nephew of “relentless harassment and intimidation.
In line with the lawsuit filed by Jackson, the pair tried to extort $20 million from Jackson in change for not publicly revealing info that solid him “in a false gentle” and prompted “extreme emotional misery,” based on AL.com.
The Andersons continued to harass and intimidate Jackson by contacting his fast household through social media, “publicly disclosing and threatening to proceed public disclosures of allegations,” in addition to threatening to seem at places close to Jackson’s residence to intimidate him, based on courtroom information obtained by WSB-TV.
The cumulative actions and “relentless harassment and intimidation” from the Andersons reportedly prompted Jackson “extreme emotional misery.”
Jackson was awarded the case after the Andersons failed to seem in courtroom on Jan. 31 to contest a brief protecting order the case choose issued final Might.
“Defendants have acted with malice, wantonness, oppression, with a aware effort of indifference to circumstances and with the precise intent to trigger Plaintiff hurt,” Cobb County choose Jason Marbutt wrote within the ruling obtained by AL.com.”
Jackson was awarded simply over $1 million in compensatory damages and to offset lawyer charges, with an extra $20 million for punitive damages. Jackson has additionally been awarded a everlasting protecting order towards the Andersons, forbidding them from contacting him or his household, barring them from coming inside 500 yards of the Jacksons and their properties, faculties, or workplaces, and prohibiting them from posting about Jackson on social media.
The previous Raiders operating again and Kansas Metropolis Royals outfielder has expertise defending his character up to now. In 2005, Jackson sued the Inland Valley Every day Bulletin after the newspaper quoted a dietary specialist claiming a hip damage Jackson suffered taking part in within the NFL was the results of steroid use. The paper ultimately retracted the story, issuing a public apology to Jackson.