The Daily Cal — UC Berkeley’s student newspaper — is being sued by the father of a former student in small claims court, the paper reported in today’s issue. The case revolves around an article and two blog posts in which the newspaper discussed an altercation the late Chris Purtz, who died in June but who was then a student and football player at Cal, allegedly had at San Francisco strip club The Lusty Lady in 2006. Purtz’s father Harvey, a Fresno podiatrist, is suing the Daily Cal’s editor and president, Rajesh Srinivasan, for $7,500, saying Srinivasan’s refusal to take the stories off of the paper’s online archives amounts to intentional emotional distress.
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