ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 2 (UPI) — Hulk Hogan scored two courtroom victories Thursday, after a judge sided with the former WWE Superstar ahead of his upcoming sex-tape trial with Gawker Media.
“It was a beautiful day,” Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea said while leaving the Pinellas County, Fla., court.
The infamous television personality brought a $100 million lawsuit against the website for publishing a video of him having sex with another man’s wife in 2012.
Earlier this year, The National Enquirer obtained the video and revealed that Hogan had used racial slurs to describe daughter Brook Hogan’s boyfriend. Those comments led to his termination from the WWE. Hogan and his team blame Gawker for the leak and filed a complaint in August.
Hogan’s lawyer David Houston explained to FOX411 two rulings that recently went in their favor. “One was discovery, which was us being able to forensically search all of [Gawker Media’s] computer systems to determine if there was any leak from the National Enquirer and Gawker,” he said.
“The second motion was a motion brought by Gawker consenting to unseal or remove the confidentiality aspect of certain discovery in this case, and the court agreed with us on all but one item that it was important to preserve the privacy of a litigant than release the information publicly,” Houston said. “Again, the judge agreed with the position taken by Bollea and his attorneys.”
Gawker Media’s attorney Mike Berry from the firm Levine Sullivan did not agree with the ruling.
“Given the obvious public interest in this case, it is truly unfortunate that a large number of records remain hidden, and that the public is prevented from seeing both sides’ arguments and the basis for many of the court’s most significant rulings,” Berry said in a statement. “The public should be able to know what happens in its court system.”
The trial, originally scheduled for July 6, was recently pushed back to March 2016 from its original October postponement date to allow for the hunt for possible leaks to the Enquirer.
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