The jury awarded $2.9M, purportedly finding liability on all four counts. (Remember, they were defamation [which did not stem from the funeral protests them­selves], invasion of privacy: intrusion on seclusion, invasion of privacy: public disclosure of private facts, and inten­tional infliction of emotional distress.) I still think the invasion of privacy suits should have failed because if we’re going to have public property, the Constitution controls the contra­diction. I do not think the behavior of the WBC protesters was suffi­ciently extreme or outra­geous to warrant a finding of liability for inten­tional infliction of emotional distress. And I find the defamation claim unin­ter­esting, meaning that [ . . . ]

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