When Disney (DIS) reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation case against ABC News, many accused the company of caving to him and media law experts predicted the move would embolden Trump to file other lawsuits that could test the limit of the First Amendment, Brooks Barnes of The New York Times reports. While Disney anticipated the blowback, they also determined they had a flawed case and could risk damaging press protections for everyone by continuing to fight.
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