March 07, 2018
A doctoral student can go forward with her suit against Northwestern University Professor Laura Kipnis and HarperCollins Publishers LLC alleging a book on Title IX and sexual assault on college campuses authored by Kipnis defamed and slandered her by including private details of her life.
December 06, 2017
HarperCollins Publishers LLC on Wednesday urged an Illinois federal judge to toss a graduate student's defamation and invasion of privacy suit against the company and the author of a book on campus sexual assault, saying the student can't lob such allegations against them because the passages about her are the author's constitutionally protected opinion.