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The civil suit, filed in a Circuit Court in Lynchburg, asks for $10.35 million in damages over the allegations, which stem from a late-March article published in The Times shortly after the university partially reopened during the coronavirus pandemic.
Liberty argues that the newspaper "intentionally misrepresented" the situation at school by suggested its reopening led to a wave of coronavirus infections on the campus.
The suit claims the paper's reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, incorrectly reported the comments of an on-campus doctor and failed to take "basic journalistic steps" to verify the information she alleged in her story. The reporter also "did not even try to make a meaningful inquiry of Liberty itself," the suit argues.
The complaint also alleges one count of civil trespass against the defendants – including including local photographer Julia Rendleman – arguing that they violated the school's no-trespassing policy while covering the story.
Oh how the times has fallen.
