![]() Update: Gawker released an official statement on the victory: "The FBI's tapes and documents should help answer a number of questions relevant to Hulk Hogan's lawsuit - whether there are still more sex tapes out there, who was taping and why and who all knew about it. Bucklew will then hold a follow-up hearing next Thursday to rule on whether or not those exemptions actually apply or whether those documents, too, must be released. and EOUSA can withhold documents that they believe are exempt from FOIA, but they must justify these exemptions by filing a "categorical index" of documents-laying out the specifics of which exemptions apply to which documents-by Tuesday. and the EOUSA turn over to Gawker all of the documents (and give the two CDs to the special magistrate) by Friday. That is the case that the media company won on Wednesday, when Judge Susan Bucklew of Florida's Middle District ordered that the F.B.I. and the EOUSA in federal court to force them to release the documents. The government denied Gawker's appeal, so Gawker sued both the F.B.I. had found during the course of the investigation. Attorney's Office to Houston detailing some of the evidence the F.B.I. On Tuesday, the New York Observer published part of this correspondence-a 2013 letter from the U.S. and Hogan's lawyer Houston about the end of the investigation. As part of its appeal, Gawker cited correspondence between the F.B.I. Gawker appealed the F.B.I.'s decision not to release the evidence, arguing that the investigation had already closed. Attorney's Office ("EOUSA"), which ignored its request. replied and said that it found 1,168 documents and two CDs of video material that were potentially responsive to the records request, but that it would not be releasing them since they were related to an ongoing investigation and therefore exempt from FOIA. (Presumably, Hogan was worried that Gawker would publish any more sex tape footage it got its hands on.) According to the request, Gawker and Hogan had agreed that while documents could be released directly to Gawker, any video footage related to the investigation must be placed in a sealed envelope and given to a special magistrate who was overseeing the discovery phase of Hogan's suit against Gawker. This FOIA request was more detailed than the first and asked for both documents and video footage. in November 2014 and filed another FOIA request for the evidence. Now armed with the privacy waivers, Gawker went back to the F.B.I. ![]() Judge Pamela Campbell, who is presiding over Hogan's case against Gawker, ordered that Hogan and Clem sign the privacy waivers. ![]() Gawker argued that it needed the F.B.I.'s evidence as part of its legal defense and asked the court to force Hogan and Clem to waive their rights to privacy. So Gawker asked Hogan and Clem to sign authorizations waiving their privacy rights. denied the request, on the grounds that releasing it would infringe on Hogan and Heather Clem's privacy. Specifically, Gawker requested "ALL documents relating to an investigation, or a request for an investigation, in October 2012 regarding allegations of illegal recording(s) of Terry Bollea a/k/a Hulk Hogan engaged in sexual relations." for this evidence, hoping to use it as part of its defense against Hogan's lawsuit. In November 2013, Gawker filed a FOIA request with the F.B.I. dug up a great deal of evidence related to Hogan's sex tape in the course of that investigation. Attorney's Office ultimately declined to prosecute anyone, but the F.B.I. Hogan's lawyer David Houston contacted the F.B.I., which launched a criminal investigation into the creation and attempted sale of the video. Hogan subsequently sued Gawker in civil court for invasion of privacy.Īt roughly the same time, according to court documents, a Los Angeles lawyer had obtained the sex tape and was trying to sell it. ![]() In late 2012, Gawker anonymously received a DVD of the sex tape, then edited the video into a roughly 100-second "highlights reel," and published that along with a long commentary on sex tapes. It depicts Hogan having sex with Bubba's then-wife Heather, with Bubba's encouragement. The tape was recorded in 2006 by Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, a shock jock who was friends with Hogan. As Capital previously reported, professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea) sued Gawker in 2012 after it published excerpts of a sex tape featuring Hogan.
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