Middle East studies in the News

Defamation Suit Against ACLU Dismissed [on Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy]

by Ed Brayton
ScienceBlogs
December 17, 2009

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/12/defamation_suit_against_aclu_d.php

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8883

The ACLU is currently suing a Muslim charter school in Minnesota, the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, for various First Amendment violations. The school responded to that suit with a countersuit against the ACLU for defamation. That countersuit has now been dismissed by a federal judge.

A federal judge has rejected claims that the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota defamed a charter school that the ACLU has accused of promoting Islam.

As a public school, Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) is a governmental body and can't sue for libel, U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank said in an order dated Wednesday.

That is the correct result.

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