Attorneys for a professor awarded $30 million by a jury within the first case to go to trial below New York Metropolis’s revenge porn laws mentioned their consumer’s sturdy testimony and her dedication to reporting the defendant’s crimes helped them safe the decision.
Jurors awarded Dr. Spring Chenoa Cooper $20 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages for the ache and struggling brought on by her ex-boyfriend Ryan Broems. Broems repeatedly posted intimate pictures and movies of her on-line—alongside different private figuring out data, equivalent to her cellphone quantity and worker identification card—following their breakup.