Rolling Stone Magazine’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by three former members of the fraternity maligned by the publication in a now-retracted article alleging a gang rape. The three former members of the University of Virginia chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity claim in their lawsuit that they were easily identified as potential rapists in Rolling Stone’s expose. The students claim their names and hometowns were listed online following the article, and that their names will forever be associated with the alleged gang rape. Attorneys for Rolling Stone dispute this, writing No reasonable reader would understand from the article and the proffered extrinsic evidence that plaintiffs are identified as the perpetrators.
Source: Rolling Stone wants lawsuit over debunked gang-rape article dismissed