Gwinn v. Nelson [1]

Susan Gwinn, former chairwoman of the Athens County, Ohio Democratic Party sent a demand letter to Nate Nelson, an Ohio University student, demanding that he retract a letter to the editor [2] published on The Athens NEWS [3] website. In the letter to the editor, titled Gwinn should be just the start of the local Democratic Party housecleaning [2], Nelson, a member of the OU College Republicans, wrote:

Certainly the cleanup has begun with Gwinn, but Susan Gwinn has been mucking up the Athens County government and spreading the corruption around for a long time.

Gwinn's demand letter asserted that the statement is "untrue and libelous." Nelson told a reporter for The Post [4], an independent student-run newspaper at OU, that "he would not retract the statement, he would hire an attorney and he would defend his statement in court if necessary."