Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal
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Journalism professor accused of racism who lost job also loses defamation suit
GRETNA, La. (Legal Newsline) - A journalism professor who lost a prestigious job at Arizona State University after being accused of racism by former students on Twitter and in a school newspaper lost her case after a Louisiana appeals court ruled the comments were protected under the state’s anti-SLAPP statute. -
Distributor of lighters can't be called a manufacturer after one explodes, burns man
GRETNA, La. (Legal Newsline) – A company that didn’t actually make a lighter that exploded and lit a man on fire can’t be sued as an apparent manufacturer.