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Last month, a French court awarded Jardine 150,000 francs, approximately $30,000, which is the highest amount Le Figaro has ever paid in a lawsuit, and ruled that the paper had acted improperly in falsely reporting her academic credentials. A similar suit by Suleiman was dismissed because a court bailiff failed to deliver Suleiman's court papers before the filing deadline...
...opening attack on the French literature curriculum came last year in an article in France's Le Figaro magazine, a weekly supplement of the conservative Le Figaro newspaper...
...interview, she described the article in Le Figaro as "the French bashing on the Harvard bandwagon," saying, "that is a common bandwagon...
Jardine and Suleiman also asked in their suitthat they be allowed to choose newspapers inwhichLe Figaro would have to acknowledgethat it was found guilty of libel and defamation,but the judges ruled that the magazine did nothave to publish the error messages because itprinted letters to the editor from Suleiman andJardine responding to the article...
...Figaro has one month to decide if itwants to appeal the case, but Jardine said she didnot expect an appeal because the decision was sostrongly worded...