The Chronicle of Higher Education has a fairly long discussion "Scholarly Definitions Are Fighting Words in Gun-Law Theorist's Defamation Suit" Thursday, April 20, 2006 By DAVID GLENN http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/04/2006042002n.htm (for subscribers only) about this dispute and suit.
The article says, "If the case, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, does indeed go to trial, it will be the highest-profile scholarly defamation battle since the Holocaust-denial lawsuit between the British writer David Irving and the Emory University historian Deborah E. Lipstadt. And if the lawsuit succeeds, scholars might get an unpleasant reminder that they can defame someone in a single e-mail message." The article doesn't get into whether or not Lott found a true result, but it does have much discussion of who supports what. -- --henry schaffer P.S. If you don't have access to the Chronicle (through your subscription or your library's) - ask me to have the Chronicle send you a link that works for 5 days. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
