AutoAdmit, a law-students' chat site that sparked a maelstrom because of its degrading comments about students, is now at the center of a legal battle. Two women at Yale Law School have sued Anthony Ciolli, the Web site's former chief educational director — who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School this year — and several others who posted messages to the site under pseudonyms.
The complaint does not identify the plaintiffs, but it states that they suffered "emotional distress" and "economic injury" from Web-site postings about them. One student says she was denied work as a summer associate in a law firm. The other student says she developed insomnia and visited a therapist. The complaint seeks $245,000 in punitive damages and other unspecified damages from the defendants. The suit was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.–Andrea L. Foster
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