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===Lawsuits===
On May 12, 2015, UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo, chief administrator for handling sexual assault issues at the school, filed a $7.5 million defamation lawsuit in Charlottesville Circuit Court against ''Rolling Stone'' and Erdely, claiming damage to her reputation and emotional distress. Said the filing, "''Rolling Stone'' and Erdely's highly defamatory and false statements about Dean Eramo were not the result of an innocent mistake. They were the result of a wanton journalist who was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled her preconceived narrative about the victimization of women on American college campuses, and a malicious publisher who was more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic bottom line for its faltering magazine, than they were about discovering the truth or actual facts."<ref>Shapiro, T. Rees, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-dean-sues-rolling-stone-for-false-portrayal-in-retracted-rape-story/2015/05/12/2128a84a-f862-11e4-a13c-193b1241d51a_story.html U-Va. dean sues Rolling Stone for 'false' portrayal in retracted rape story]", ''[[Washington Post]]'', May 12, 2015</ref>
On July 29, 2015, three individual members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity who had been named and shamed online after the publication of the story, filed a defamation suit against the magazine in New York City, stating that the published story, while not explicitly naming them, provided enough details for people to identify them.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rolling Stone to face false campus rape article lawsuit |author= |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33714479 |publisher=BBC News |date=July 30, 2015 |accessdate=July 30, 2015}}</ref> The following December, attorneys for ''Rolling Stone'' filed a motion to have the lawsuit dismissed, stating that the article “cannot reasonably be read as accusing all members of these groups [the University of Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi] of committing rape.”<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolling Stone urges court to throw out UVa grads’ lawsuit|url=http://wavy.com/2015/12/24/rolling-stone-urges-court-to-throw-out-uva-grads-lawsuit/|accessdate=26 December 2015|work=[[WAVY-TV]]|date=24 December 2015}}</ref>
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