Spike Lee contends that the previous amount he paid to Elaine and David McClain over his incorrect address tweet should be all that he has to pay.
As previously reported, Lee incorrectly retweeted the address he thought belonged to George Zimmerman. It turned out to be an old couple in Florida.
Lee publicly apologized for his mistake and settled with the couple to the tune of $10,000. The McClains are back and in a new lawsuit are looking for another $15,000 from Lee over the address issue.
The suit the McClains filed was over negligence in taking proper care for any foreseeable harm he could have caused the couple, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Lee's attorney's have filed a motion to dismiss the suit based upon this very issue of what is "foreseeable."
The director also argues that the initial $10,000 and apology was enough and at the time, the McClains' previous lawyers - they went and got new ones for this suit - said the "McClains were very moved by Mr. Lee's apology."
"Here, at the time that Plaintiffs entered into the Settlement Agreement, it was well-known that it was possible for information posted on Twitter (by Mr. Lee or anyone else) to be retweeted in the future," the dismiss motion says.
"Indeed, the Complaint alleges that it is easy to retweet information by simply clicking a button on Twitter. For These reasons, to the extent that any of the unnamed individuals who posted the McCLains' address on Twitter in 2014 somehow obtained that information from Mr. Lee's 2012 retweet, such a consequence was eminently foreseeable when the Settlement Agreement was signed."
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