Joun J. Devine, JR. MT, PLEASANT, MICHIGAN 45856 March 12, 2015 recor The Morning Sun 711 W. Pickard Street Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 Attn: Rick Mills, Editor Re: “Mt. Pleasant Lawyer Suing Student Admits to Fake Award and Marijuana Tweets”, Published August 10, 2014 Attorney Todd L. Levitt Dear Mr. Mills: | represent Todd L. Levitt He was defamed by the Moming Sun's headline, as captioned, and the article written under the byline of Lisa Yanick- Jonaitis, The headline is patently, and knowingly, false. Mr. Levitt made no such “admission” to a “fake award”, nor is there any such admission in the “court documents” referenced in the article The article further defames Mr. Levitt by stating that he “admitted in court documents filed Friday that he created a ‘top college lawyer’ recognition and awarded it to himself.” There is no such admission in the “court documents” referenced in the article. The article also falsely states, “One of those claims, supported by HTML coding information entered as an exhibit in the case, is that Levitt himself created the website topcollegelawyers.com, and then proclaimed himseff ‘College Lawyer of the Year’, and used the manufactured award to promote himself.” There is no such admission in the “court documents” referenced in the article, and the author's statement is, knowingly, false. Finally, the balance of the article, in the context of the headline and these false statements, portrays Mr. Levitt in a false and negative light. Mr. Levitt demands an appropriate retraction. Under the applicable statute, the Morning Sun has a reasonable time in which to print such a retraction, in the same size type, in the same editions, and, as far as practical, in substantially the same position as the original defamatory headline and article.Rick Mills March 11, 2015, Page 2 Mr, Levitt also demands that you take appropriate steps so that Google, or any other Internet search engine, is no longer able to index and/or post the headline and the defamatory article. After that “reasonable time” provided in the statute for retraction, | have been instructed to commence a lawsuit against the newspaper, publisher, and author of the article for Mr. Levitt's damages and losses resulting from this defamation. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions in this regard Otherwise, | trust you are adequately advised. Sincerely, J jevine, Jr. JuD/sh c: Lisa Yanick-Jonaitis