From the Chronicle's Wire Campus Newsletter, April 15, 2008
Duke University is arguing that a Web site run by student lacrosse players suing the institution should be shut down.
The Web site,
DukeLawsuit.com,
updates visitors on the status of the case, which 38 students filed
over the university's response to rape accusations against the students
in 2006. The blog posts briefs filed by both sides in the case,
including those regarding the motion to shut down the site. Lawyers for
Duke, the City of Durham, and the Duke University Health System
objected to the site and a news conference organized by the plaintiffs
because they allegedly violate the North Carolina Professional Rules of
Conduct and will
"have a material prejudicial effect on [the] proceeding.”
The National Law Journal has more on the controversy.
--Catherine Rampell