Legal Opinion
William Dilworth v. Underwood Dudley, Robert G. Bottoms, and Donald J. Albers
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 18, 1996No. 95-2282PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The district judge dismissed this suit for failure to state a claim. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The only colorable issue presented by the appeal is whether the judge erred in dismissing the plaintiffs defamation claim, which is governed, the parties agree, by the common law of Wisconsin. In 1992 the Mathematical Association of America published a book by defendant Underwood Dudley, a professor of mathematics at DePauw University in Indiana, entitled Mathematical Cranks. One of these “cranks” is the plaintiff, William Dilworth, an engineer who (the complaint alleges) has…
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