Judge throws out claim ACLU defamed TiZA school

by Sarah Lemagie
Star Tribune
December 11, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/572

Excerpt:

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.

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