{"id":824,"date":"2007-10-31T21:39:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T01:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/father-of-slain-marine-wins-11million-from-westboro-loons\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T21:39:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T01:39:38","slug":"father-of-slain-marine-wins-11million-from-westboro-loons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Father of Slain Marine Wins $11MILLION from Westboro Loons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Snyder, father of slain Marine LCPL Matthew Snyder won every count of his lawsuit against the Westboro Baptist  Church loons who protest at his son&#8217;s funeral in 2006. The jury awarded Mr Snyder $2.9 million for compensatory damages and a staggering $8 million in punitive damages.<br \/>\nThe Westboro Church is headed by Fred Phelps, who also runs the WWW.godhatesfags.com website. Some thirty thousand protests are claimed by the, largely Phelps family group. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett, who had sealed the church&#8217;s financial documents, said from the bench that the compensatory damage award would already eclipse Westboro&#8217;s assets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good! Hopefully these jackals will be forced into poverty, then they won&#8217;t be able to disrupt any more funerals of servicemen. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-westboro1031,0,7191706.story\">The Baltimore Sun has the story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Snyder, father of slain Marine LCPL Matthew Snyder won every count of his lawsuit against &hellip; <a title=\"Father of Slain Marine Wins $11MILLION from Westboro Loons\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=824\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Father of Slain Marine Wins $11MILLION from Westboro Loons<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,5,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-legal","category-politics","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}