When they didn’t know who was behind it—they assume it was Terry paying—they thought it was going to come to a point where he couldn’t continue anymore and had to raise the white flag.” It’s easy to miss this now that one side has won and the other lost—that long before that, one side was quite confident they were winning. Gawker’s lawyers had sized up their opponent and believed they had an advantage. They were relentlessly exploiting that perceived advantage with each filing, each motion, each appeal and tactic that prolonged the litigation.
