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Duke loses bid to muzzle students

By Mark Obbie

The N&O reports today that a North Carolina federal judge has rejected Duke University's bizarre and shameful attack on the PR tactics of the lacrosse players who are suing the university. With the end of that controversy, which I previously posted on here, Dukelawsuit.com lives on (while posting its own, quite subdued report on the ruling). I have not studied the lawsuit and have no opinion about its merits. I based my criticism of Duke, instead, on the university's documented role in betraying its innocent students in the face of political pressure -- and then having the gall to tell those students to pipe down about it.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).