(NBC News) Attorneys representing Rolling Stone magazine on Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought over a since-retracted article that alleged a sexual assault at a University of Virginia frat house.
The motion seeks to dismiss a suit brought by three graduates of the university who claim the article resulted in them being identified in online posts as the attackers detailed in the story and damaged their reputations.
The magazine's attorneys argued in court documents that the article, titled "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA," didn't identify anyone portrayed in the alleged assault by name or describe them physically, and that they can't claim to have been identified just by their affiliation with the frat.
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