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Professors Suing Students

Jessica Mathewson-Library Media Technical Asst.-jessica.mathewson@law.csuohio.edu | May 02, 2008 - 13:33

Richard Peltz, known free speech authority and Professor of Torts and Constitutional Law at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, recently sued some of his former black students and UALR’s Black Law Association for defamation. He claims the students falsely accused him of racism. The situation began in 2005 in a con law class, when Professor Peltz, according to a letter written to the Law School Dean, spoke of friends not getting into law school because of affirmative action. Prof. Peltz also discussed an article from the Onion, Now We Can Finally Put Civil Rights Behind Us. The satirical article was about the death of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks. That issue was apparently resolved in 2005 but racial issues have arisen again on campus. The recent controversy surrounds the Law Review and the absence of black students on its editorial board. Professor Peltz became part of this issue because of his support of the editor in chief in that decision.

The irony of it all…the suit may in fact limit free speech on campus, the very thing for which Professor Peltz is recognized as an expert.

Source: Above the Law


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Chuck Northcutt | 03/05/2008, 13:53

As someone who has also been recently defamed for simply expressing my views, all I can say is that free speech is one thing and reckless slander is another...

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