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Ex-Yale students settle internet AutoAdmit defamation lawsuit

Posted on October 22, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Edmund H. Mahony reports:

Two former Yale University law school students have quietly settled a high-profile lawsuit they brought against about two dozen anonymous authors who the students said defamed and threatened them by posting malicious falsehoods on an Internet message board.

The terms under which the suit was resolved are confidential, and lawyers representing the former students, Heide Iravani and Brittan Heller, would not discuss them. Court records and lawyers who followed the litigation said attorneys for the women were able to identify eight or nine of the anonymous posters and settled with some of them.

Read more in the Hartford Courant.

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