It shouldn’t surprise or sadden me anymore toread about a once-noble university now acting as if the First Amendment was never adopted, but it still does. Remember the Duke lacrosse team outrage? Well, the players and their families are suing all of the responsible parties, including Duke.
I doubt there have been many cases in which a damages suit was more justified than this one. Frankly, there would be such sweet justice if the three young men whose lives were shattered by false rape charges end up owning Duke University, so they can fire school president Richard Brodhead and the faculty members who aided and abetted the students’ defamation.
In response to the litigation that has been initiated, Duke’s lawyers are trying to get the judge to issue an order directing the plaintiffs to shut down the web site they have established keep the media, the public and their legions of supporters informed on the status of the case. Seems the school finds the posting of briefs filed in the case to be “incendiary.” Interesting, isn’t it, how tyrants and cowards always find the truth to be threatening.
Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff – who knows a good brief when he reads it – has more details and some insights that ought to make the Duke lawyers think twice about what they are doing to themselves and their client.
