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Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Alice A. Jardine and Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures Susan R. Suleiman, both internationally recognized scholars and authors, sued the magazine for libel and defamation, charging that the article blatantly misrepresented their academic qualifications...
...Thus in the view of some students the factthat, as a scholar, Professor Witzel did good workdid not exonerate him from, as a professor,intimidating students," the minutes continue. "Aprofessor should be encouraging his students'intellectual development, not threatening themwith libel suits...
...January 24 letter to LeVine, Witzel'slawyer, James Pollock, writes that the Decemberminutes "bring disrepute upon the name, reputationand standing of Professor Witzel both as a teacherand as an administrator. Accordingly, they fallinto the category of libel....The possibility ofmalice on your part is not to be ruled out giventhe unnecessarily hostile, unprofessional andnon-collegial demeanor you have shown in any faceto face dealings with Professor Witzel and thefact that your minutes omitted material presentedat the meeting, the inclusion of which would havelent balance to the record...
...didn't seem to enjoy himself much last time, but Mark Fuhrman wants another day in court. The Los Angeles police detective has filed a $50 million libel suit against the New Yorker and writer Jeffrey Toobin for a July 1994 article he says exposed him to "hatred, contempt and ridicule." The article explored his psychological records and quoted O.J. Simpson's lawyers calling him a "rogue...
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...