I'd imagine anyone worth anything at Kotaku will be gone long before the axe officially comes down, assuming it does (and it probably will, though it may take a few years for the appeals process to officially tell them to get fucked and pay him.)
As far as the verdict itself goes- I think had it just stuck to being about Hogan's sex tape, they may have had a chance, but once they started talking about shit like them posting a video of a girl being sexually assaulted and responding with "blah blah blah get over it" when she asked to take it down, they were pretty much fucked. Because while the first amendment may technically cover all of the shit Gawker pulled, in the end people don't care about "the law," they care about
justice. So when people hate you more than they like a free press, they're going to want to see you burn regardless of if what you did "only violated the spirit of the law" or whatever.
FYI, the term 'SJW' predates GG by 2-3 years. There's history behind it before it got appropriated by assholes.
Yeah, "SJW" initially referred to people who said/did hateful, shitty, bigoted things in the name of fighting bigotry- mostly referring to people on Tumblr who spout shit like "kill all white people" "die cis scum" etc etc. Since GG it's pretty much devolved into "anyone with an identity politics-related opinion to the left of my own," though. I wouldn't defend the use if it in this day and age due to that, but claiming that the term was created by GG is factually untrue (though looking at
this graph I can understand why one would think that.)