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http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002032601t.htm

Nebraska Justices Permit Student's Lawsuit Over Online Essays to Go Forward
ANDREA L. FOSTER

The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that a former student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln can proceed with a lawsuit that accuses the university of negligence after a former professor posted essays of hers on the Internet without her consent. The ruling reversed a lower court decision that dismissed the long-running case on grounds that the former student had filed her suit after the end of the two-year window Nebraska allows for negligence suits. The student, Rania K. Shlien, maintains that the posted essays -- "Anacoluthon" and "Being There for You" -- contain intimate details of her private life, according to court documents....

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