Can a state university sue a media outlet? This past week, the Dispatch ran a story with the headline "One of two aboard OU plane loaded with cocaine pleads guilty." (
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170516/one-of-two-aboard-o... ) It hasn't been changed as of today. Although the headline implies that Ohio owns the plane, in fact the plane was flying from the Bahamas to Canada and just happened to make an emergency landing at Ohio's airport. There's no connection whatsoever between the university and the plane. I'm sure that if the plane had landed at O$U's airport, they wouldn't have called it "O$U plane."
This is a textbook false light suit, but I'm not sure a state university can sue. The headline, of course, has been picked up by robo news services on the Internet, so it's likely to be out there forever. I complained to the Dispatch a couple days ago but nothing has happened.