There is rape and there is rape, rape.
Via Daily Caller:
The University of Virginia dean who is suing Rolling Stone for defamation has asked a federal judge to force the National Organization for Women (NOW) to turn over its correspondence with lawyers for the woman whose false rape claims are the centerpiece of the debunked article, “A Rape on Campus.”
Attorneys for the dean, Nicole Eramo, allege that NOW, the largest feminist group in the U.S., and the lawyers for the false rape accuser, Jackie Coakley (“Jackie”), engaged in a “publicity stunt” by jointly crafting a Jan. 6, 2016 open letter criticizing Eramo for “re-victimiz[ing]” the fabulist.
Defendants in the $7.5 million lawsuit — which include Rolling Stone and its reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely — have indicated that they plan to introduce the letter as evidence in the case.
But the letter is a case of self-dealing, suggests Eramo’s lawyer, Thomas Clare. And he is asking the federal court to force NOW to comply with a subpoena for its communications with Jackie’s attorneys at the firm Stein Mitchell.
“The fact that Jackie’s counsel encouraged and participated in the drafting and publication of the Open Letter…shows that the Open Letter is not a trustworthy and independent analysis of the Article,” writes Clare, a partner with the