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Fred Phelps Freaks Lose Big
Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 4:59:31 pm PDT
The Fred Phelps hate cult is $10.9 million poorer today: Father of slain Marine wins case against funeral protesters.
The brokenhearted father of a Marine killed in Iraq won a long-shot legal fight today after a federal jury in Baltimore awarded him nearly $11 million in a verdict against members of a Kansas church who hoisted anti-gay placards at his son’s Westminster funeral.
The jury’s announcement 24 hours after deliberations first began was met with tears and hugs from the family and supporters of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, whose March 2006 funeral was protested by members of the Westboro Baptist Church with signs including “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
Snyder’s father, Albert, won on every count of his complaint, as well as $2.9 million for compensatory damages and $8 million for punitive damages.
(Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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