Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts

I do not know much about defamation law in other countries, but in the US there would be no valid case. The statements are derogatory, but are opinions and not facts.... the plaintiff here would lose quickly

This, of course, assumes that the University would go to fight
In US they can (and often do, right or wrong!) choose to settle instead and institute new policies limiting what employees can blog on the next day.

Even in US, I am afraid this would not get tossed out of court automatically. Someone would have to stand and fight at a significant expense.

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