Bo Jackson was awarded $21 million in a civil swimsuit after his niece and nephew tried to extort him.
The 2-sport legend filed a criticism final April in opposition to siblings Thomas Lee Anderson and Erica M. Andrews, accusing his niece and nephew of “relentless harassment and intimidation.
According to the lawsuit filed by Jackson, the pair attempted to extort $20 million from Jackson in exchange for not publicly revealing information that cast him “in a false light” and prompted “severe emotional distress,” according to AL.com.
The Andersons continued to harass and intimidate Jackson by contacting his quick household by way of social media, “publicly disclosing and threatening to continue public disclosures of allegations,” in addition to threatening to look at areas close to Jackson’s dwelling to intimidate him, in response to courtroom information obtained by WSB-TV.
The cumulative actions and “relentless harassment and intimidation” from the Andersons reportedly prompted Jackson “severe emotional distress.”
Jackson was awarded the case after the Andersons failed to look in courtroom on Jan. 31 to contest a short lived protecting order the case choose issued final Might.
“Defendants have acted with malice, wantonness, oppression, with a conscious effort of indifference to circumstances and with the specific intent to cause Plaintiff harm,” 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 legal professional charges, with a further $20 million for punitive damages. Jackson has additionally been awarded a everlasting protecting order in opposition to the Andersons, forbidding them from contacting him or his household, barring them from coming inside 500 yards of the Jacksons and their properties, colleges, 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 previously. 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.
