Chanda Leer was a communication law student at your school years ago. She writes a novel (that means fiction) about college life. In it, she describes a professor that sounds a lot like the popular mentor, Dr. Sue Yoo, but Leer has the novel's character changing students' grades in exchange for bribes, which the novel claims are used to fund trips to Asia. Dr. Yoo has never accepted any bribes, so this information - if applied to her - is false. According to precedent, if Yoo sues Leer, the professor will lose because works clearly labeled as a fiction and never used the name, Sue Yoo.

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Courts have ruled that works of fiction can identify real people, and as such real people may file libel suits for works of fiction.

Chanda Leer Was a Communication Law Student at Your School