University Daily Kansan, January 15, 1981
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KU's actions basis for Forer suit
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Last winter, KU professor Norman Forer and Clarence Dillingham, former instructor in social welfare, ted a three-week mission to Iran to try to improve U.S.Iranian relations.
This winter, the two men have taken their case to Douglas County District Court as part of the long-awaited lawsuit with the University over that trip.
Forer and Dillingham fitted suit Dec. 31, charging Acting Chancellor Del Shankel, former Chancellor Archie Dykes and the University with libel, invasion of privacy and denial of due process in action taken against the two as a result of the trip.
BOTH FOREM and Dillingham were suspended without pay by the university for the time they spent in the UK. The two have also walked away the two have alleged that their
families received threatening phone calls and that libelous statements were made by University officials.
Jack Klinknett, attorney for Forer and Dillingham, said the suit was filed now to meet the one-year statute of limitations for libel.
Klinknett said the suit asked for $20,000 on each count from each of defendants.
But K琳nett said the charge of denial of due process was an alternate charge and damages asked for might not be awarded unless the court determined that the duty did carry out disciplinary action.
Forer and Dillingham said the University did not take any such action, and that statements by the University indicating that disciplinary action might be taken damaged their reputations.
The suit charges that the University made statements that disciplinary action might be taken before he returned from Iran last January.
During their stay in Tehran, Forer and Dillingham met with the Iranian militant at the U.S. Embassy and criticized U.S. policies toward Iran.
Dillingham alleged in the suit that he lost his position with the University, received threatening telephone calls, had to spend money for a job search and incurred mental and emotional anguish.
"We've tried to settle this within the family for a long time, but it hasn't worked," Forer said Tuesday.
Forer, associate professor of social welfare, claimed that besides the damage to his professional reputation, the statements made by him caused mental and emotional distress that required hospitalization.
SHAKENL DECLINED to comment on the suit. Shankel and the rest of the defendants have 20 days from the time it receives official notice of the lawsuit in which to file a response.
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
Prof refiles $1.5 million lawsuit
A KU professor of anthropology who filed a $1.5 million lawsuit last October against two former students and three other people has refiled the suit to comply with a court order to make his claims more specific.
Both sides now will go through the process of discovery, which involves each side asking any questions it has about the claims being made. According to Deputy Attorney General Robert Duff, five defendants, this process already started and is expected to take several months.
Miller said he did not expect the case to go to court for at least a year.
The anthropology professor, Michael Crawford, filed the suit in response to what he claimed were slanderous allegations made in March 1977 by two doctoral candidates. The students alleged that Crawford used improper research techniques on human subjects and that he misappropriated federal
funda while on a research project in Belize, a Central American country.
NAMED IN the suit as defendants are the two students, Liz Murray and Nancy Sempoliki; Henry Lundsgaarder, another KU professor of anthropology; Jack Husted, Murray's husband; and Eugenie Scott., an anthropology professor at the University of Kentucky who was also on the trib.
Crawford's revised suit is now asking for more than $10,000 in damages from each of the defendants. Under Kansas law, Crawford is not required to state how much he is asking for, only that he is seeking more than $10,000.
Miller said he asked the court last November to order Crawford to refile nine of the records.
Lundsgaarde said he had asked the attorney general for representation because "the charges out of my case of my duties as a faculty member."
CRAWFORD FILED suit Dec. 11,
claiming the two students had injured
his reputation by publicly accusing him
of misusing a $46,899 federal grant for
his research. He also claims in the suit that the defendants "combined to hinder and harass him in the conduct of his action and diminish his earning capacity."
The suit also claims that the defendants made defamatory statements to reporters and to state, federal and professional review boards, including the ethics committee of the American Anthropological Association.
The refiled suit claims that Sempolski, Murray and Scott testified before the Ethics committee and made testimony to the statutory statements against Crawford.
Crawford contends the statements included claims that in the summer of 1978 Crawford forced Murray to return $400 in cash from her salary as a research assistant to be used in a slush fund.
Miller denied all the claims on behalf of the defendants.
Crawford is out of town and could not be reached for comment and his work would not discuss the issue. Millard said defendants not to comment on the case.
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