Posted on 06/18/2007 12:33:46 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Already posted
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852280/posts
I wonder if it covers the 88 Morons?
I doubt it includes the “88 Morons” because they were not formally a Duke group. I suspect the 88 will have thier respective socks sued off them which is great.
How about the Gang of 88?
Dream scenario: Each Duke lacrosse player and member of coaching staff will have a building erected and named in his honor with a plaque explaining Duke U.’s guilt...paid for by the University. Also, as part of the deal, 88 professors will be “let go” due to their participation in this modern day lynching-by-lawyer.
I would have told them to take their settlement offer, and shove it.
And a building named Hall of the White Male Patriarchy.
Doubt that’s going to happen! I would rather sue, especially where the facts here are as indisputably clear as they are. I think often the injured parties in such cases are too quick to settle.
88 athletic and fraternity/sorority buildings — one for each of the Gang of 88 — paid for out of the salaries of the Gang of 88.
Well, that’s going alittle too far...;)
I sincerely hope so too. How dare those ingrates who tried to be judge and jury to those three students get off free. They wanted to get involved, let them pay the price of admission!!!!
So like is the coach that was immediately fired will be rehired with back pay?
Have you ever been through litigation as a party? I'm a lawyer, and I wouldn't wish litigation on an individual plaintiff or defendant except as the very last resort. If you can get a settlement that makes you whole, or close to it, without spending thousands of hours over a couple of years or more, being grilled by your lawyers and the other side, only to have an uncertain outcome, do it, even if you think you could get a lot more from a jury.
The lacrosse players have good lawyers, and I'm sure they weighed the upside and downsides of litigation and concluded the deal offered was better -- including the value of these guys getting on with their lives right away -- that the chance of winning more money. I'd be they got close to enough to cover their legal fees, net of the legal fees for this settlement.
So like is the coach that was immediately fired will be rehired with back pay?
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He resigned, he was not fired.
The 88 morons are probably on their own.
I’m not aware of anything Duke did that would result in a sucessful suit. Cancelling the soceer season because of a party where there was underage drinking is a little drastic, but could be defended. Don’t get me wrong, I think Duke treated these young men horribly, but I don’t think the legal case would have been that strong.
As for the 88 however: libel, defamation, inflicting emotional distress ... lots of goodies to go after there.
They are kids. Why would they want to subject themselves to any more of this BS?
The coach has also settled - and has a book coming out, I understand.
Any settlement that doesn’t include the IMMEDIATE DISMISSAL of that PC feckless imbecile Duke President - Mr. Brodhead and the black racist and feminazi rent a mob of 88 “professors’ would be incomplete....and unsatisfactory.
Fire them ALL......
The irrational black racist moronic behavior of the 88 Professors, the “New Black Panthers”, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and most of the black citizens of Durham — demonstrates CLEARLY why so many of their race are still enslaved on the “leftist’s plantation” by their own ignorance, greed and immorality.
Notice - there is STILL denial of the facts of this case in the black community..
Notice - there has STILL not been any condemnation of the lying whore whose lies created this costly and devastating experience for the boy’s families, their own community and Duke University..
I hope the settlements come right off the top of “set asides” for Affirmative Action hires and Welfare payments...
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