This past week a Delaware court allowed a defamation lawsuit filed by the Armenta family to move forward against the sports site Deadspin.
The suit is based on Deadspin writer Carron Phillips’ since-edited article from late last year in which he blasted the Armentas for allowing their son to dress up in a Native American headdress and Kansas City Chiefs face paint.
The boy was “disrespect[ing] two groups of people at once” (Native Americans and blacks) Phillips wrote, given the headdress and a snapshot of his face which showed only the black paint.