The Devil's Advocate

When last we visited Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law, a third-year student and Republican activist was being charged with attempted solicitation of sex with a minor.

Now, from Democraticunderground.com comes the slightly stale story of a former second-year student who sued Regent, claiming he was kicked off campus after his classmates accused him of being possessed by demons:

Chadbourne, a Persian Gulf War veteran who served as an Army Delta reconnaissance scout, was a second-year Regent Law School student in the fall of 1999. He had developed a facial tic that he said may have been the result of exposure to chemical or biological agents during the war.

"It was the sudden onset of this disability that caused at least one, if not several, of the plaintiff's religiously fervent classmates to inform the plaintiff that he 'had a demon and had therefore been cursed by God for being sinful,' '' Chadbourne said in court papers.

The unfortunate student, having only the benefit of a Regent education, wasn't able to squeeze much of a settlement out of Robertson's law school-with-ashtrays.

Now there's a case I would've loved to see go to trial.

By ordeal or drowning.