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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...
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...
...sense, Loupin [sic] can't be blamed for wondering if 'old authors are suspect' at Harvard: two of the French department's four tenured professors, namely Suleiman andJardine, specialize in twentieth-centuryliterature," Hunnewell adds...
...expect that the suit against the bailiffwill produce at least the same amount of damagesas I would have gotten from Le Figaro,"Suleiman said. "But there may be additionaldamages for the harm done by the bailiff's ownerror...
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...