Edwin Mellen Press To Drop Suit Against Librarian
Submitted by Blake on March 4, 2013 - 12:15pm
A U.S.-based publishing company says it is dropping at least one of its lawsuits against a McMaster librarian after scholars across North America came to his defense.
Edwin Mellen Press (EMP) had filed two lawsuits against Dale Askey and McMaster University, claiming a total of $4.5 million in damages.
Edwin Mellen PressIn the first filing, submitted in June of last year, the company alleged that statements Askey made in a Sept. 2010 blog post, while he was working at a Kansas university, were both “false” and “defamatory in its tone and context.”

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Mellen had two parallel suits. The one citing Askey and McMaster has been dropped, but there is still an additional suit aimed only at Askey that has not been dropped yet.
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