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Article: Biondi vs. Meyer, still in court.(off the record)(Avis Meyer and Lawrence Biondi)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
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- December 1, 2008
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Despite a judge's ruling last month throwing out most of a lawsuit by St. Louis University against Prof. Avis Meyer, SLU lawyers are still trying to get Meyer to pay tens of thousands of dollars for their legal fees and alleged damages.
The suit, say Meyer's supporters, is being pushed by Rev. Lawrence Biondi, the university president. The two men have had an ongoing feud for years, and last summer Meyer was barred from the newsroom of the University News, where he had been a popular faculty adviser for 34 years.
Meyer has said Biondi blames him for anything Biondi perceives as negative in the paper. Student journalists still come to see Meyer about ...