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Reporters Committee Statement on Liberty University Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times
July 18, 2020
WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press issued the following statement by Legal Director Katie Townsend:

Liberty University filed a lawsuit against the New York Times and two of its journalists on Wednesday over a story reporting that students at the Virginia school contracted COVID-19 after the university partially re-opened campus amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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"This lawsuit is an affront to the First Amendment a . . .

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