The fallout from the news coverage following a viral Twitter post featuring a Kentucky high school student in an encounter with a Native American on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall has resulted in a third defamation lawsuit against a media organization.

On Wednesday, Atlanta libel lawyer Lin Wood filed a $275 million lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media LLC, the parent company of NBC and MSNBC, on behalf of 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann of Covington, Kentucky. Wood has filed similar lawsuits against CNN and The Washington Post.

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