[FACT comments: This is why defamation laws are so dangerous--they are used by the powerful against those without.]
Law Professor Accuses Students of Defamation
By LYNNLEY BROWNING
The New York Times: May 1, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/us/01legal.html?ref=todayspaper
At the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, an award-winning law professor has sued two of his students, alleging that they defamed him by unfairly describing him on campus as a racist…In a constitutional law class in 2005, he displayed what some of his black law students described to university officials as a belittling satirical article from The Onion on Rosa Parks…Professor Peltz last month filed a civil lawsuit against two of the law students, Valerie D. Nation and Chrishuana L. Clark, both third-year students. The lawsuit also names as defendants Eric S. Buchanan, who is a lawyer for the W. Harold Flowers Law Society in Little Rock, an association of black lawyers in Arkansas; the society itself; and the local chapter of the Black Law Students Association…The complaint alleges defamation of character and seeks unspecified monetary and punitive damages.
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