Posted on 11/05/2009 8:02:56 PM PST by Saije
A law school professor has withdrawn a lawsuit accusing the legal blog Above the Law of publishing a "viciously racist series of rants" after reporting the professor's arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution.
University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones dropped his lawsuit on Wednesday, nine days after he filed it pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He did not respond to a request for comment.***
Above the Law Managing Editor David Lat declined comment on Thursday, but in a blog post on Wednesday wrote that there had been no settlement and that the posts Jones complained about will remain on the site.***
Jones had accused the site of portraying him in a false light, invading his privacy and infringing the university's copyright on his faculty photo. The suit named as defendants Lat, publisher David Minkin and parent company Dead Horse Media Inc., now called Breaking Media LLC. It sought $44 million in damages and removal of the content from the Web site.
The claims stemmed from a series of posts that the blog ran in October 2007 about a run-in Jones had with Miami police in August that year. Jones — a prominent African-American civil rights activist in Miami — was arrested after he allegedly asked an undercover officer for sex. He insisted he was merely asking for directions. The charges were later dropped and Jones' arrest record was expunged, but not before Above the Law posted the police incident report and a variety of commentary, including a reader-submitted photo collage depicting Jones conversing with prostitutes. Jones alleged that the collage and much of the commentary was racist and hurt his career.
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Yea - I always ask prostitutes for ‘directions’.
Well, was he or was he not consorting with hookers??
Need photos of said streetwalkers to determine guilt.
Maybe he figured out what discovery might disclose?
Undercover officer.
Therefore it never happened.
The paperwork went down the memory hole.
Only conservatives break the law.
Maybe he was a newbie, and was simply asking for directions....(wait for it)...to her vagina.
Hey, it happens.
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