University of Virginia Associate Dean Files Suit Against Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone’s pull quote decisions now fodder in defamation lawsuit pic.twitter.com/GjpS4fmymG

— Graham Moomaw (@gmoomaw) May 12, 2015

Per Richmond Times-Dispatch City Hall reporter Graham Moomaw, University of Virginia associate dean of students Nicole Eramo has filed a defamation lawsuit and is seeking $7.85 million in damages from Rolling Stone magazine and “A Rape on Campus” article author Sabrina Rubin Erdely. From Newsweek reporter Polly Mosendz’s item:

In the lawsuit, Eramo’s attorney writes: “Rolling Stone and Erdely’s highly defamatory and false statements about Dean Eramo were not the result of an innocent mistake; they were the result of a wanton journalist who was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled her preconceived narrative about the victimization of women on American college campuses, and a malicious publisher who was more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic...