News Corp. Settles 36 Hacking Cases
Actor Jude Law Receives $200,000
Jon Lafayette (Broadcasting & Cable) -- Multichannel News, 1/19/2012 10:57:00 AM
News Corp. has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle with 36 victims of phone hacking by its British tabloid News of the World, according to the Associated Press.
The phone hacking scandal led Rupert Murdoch's media company to shut down the newspapers and resulted in the departure of several top officials. Murdoch and his son, James Murdoch, have been forced to testify about the situation before British officials.
One of the settlements was with actor Jude Law, who received about $200,000, but most of the settlements were in the five-figure range.
News Corp. has been sued by 60 people claiming their mobile phone voicemails had been intercepted unlawfully.
"While congratulations are due to those [lawyers] and clients who have settled their cases, it is important that we don't get carried away into thinking that the war is over," said Mark Lewis, one of the first lawyers to file a suit against News Corp., said to the AP. "Fewer than 1% of the people who were hacked have settled their cases. There are many more cases in the pipeline. ... This is too early to celebrate; we're not even at the end of the beginning."
Some cases had been settled previously. Another batch is due to go to court next month unless they are settled.
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