Legal Opinion
Revell v. Lidov
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 31, 2002No. 01-10521PublishedCited by 309 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
Oliver “Buck” Revell sued Hart G.W. Lidov and Columbia University for defamation arising out of Lidov’s authorship of an article that he posted on an internet bulletin board Posted by Columbia. The district court dismissed Revell’s claims for lack of personal jurisdiction over both Li-dov and Columbia. We affirm.
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Hart G.W. Lidov, an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Neurology at the Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, wrote a lengthy article on the subject of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie,…
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