Posted on 10/22/2003 2:50:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Something odd about Terri's new guadian ad litem (?) here. Don't know if it means anything, but FWIW:
Secretary sues over scholars' fracas at USF
By JAMES HARPER St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer February 4, 1994
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Jay Wolfson, a USF professor and member of the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority, threatened secretary Yolanda Santos, grabbed her and jumped on her back - all in a struggle over Santos' personal tape recorder, the suit charges.
"This is something one would expect to read about in grade school," said Santos' attorney, Steve Yerrid. "It's ironic in a place of higher learning that the very basics we learn as children were cast aside."
"We're comfortable that Dr. Wolfson did nothing inappropriate that day," said Tracy Sheehan, one of the lawyers representing him.
Santos' story is nothing but "a fabrication" designed to fuel a bitter faculty turf war at USF, she said.
The suit claims that Wolfson's actions amounted to assault and battery, false imprisonment and negligence and asks for $300,000 in punitive damages.
State prosecutors and USF officials are still investigating the Dec. 17 incident, which occurred at a faculty meeting in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the College of Public Health.
Details of the incident have been sketchy.
Department chairman James Studnicki, who along with Santos filed a criminal complaint, has declined to speak with reporters about it. Wolfson and interim public health dean John Skinner, who were both at the meeting, have said there was a lot of yelling that day, but nothing violent.
Santos' lawsuit offers different version of events. The meeting, which Santos was there to record, began with an argument between Studnicki and Wolfson. When Studnicki tried to adjourn the meeting and asked Santos to leave with him, Wolfson grabbed her by the arm and thrust her back into her chair, the suit says. Santos said she was frightened by Wolfson's yelling and threats.
A few moments later, Studnicki again asked Santos to leave the room and to take her tape recorder with her. When Santos reached for the recorder, Wolfson "jumped on her back and reached over her in an effort of wrestle the records from her possession," the suit says. "As a result of (Wolfson's) unexpected attack, (Santos) was violently pushed headfirst into the chair upon which the recorder had been resting and as a result sustained personal injuries."
The Provost Office has asked three professors to decide whether faculty rules were broken.
IANAL, but my guess is that the argument would not be that the legislature usurped a judicial function, but that it attempted to authorize the governor (part of the executive branch) to usurp a judicial function.
Essentially, the legislature authorized the governor to supercede a court decision by executive order. That's not the sort of thing that usually makes conservatives stand up and cheer.
(For all I know, this may have been a frivolous lawsuit. Nonetheless the woman he allegedly assaulted claimed injury and appears to have won an award from State Farm, Wolfson's insurer.)
I'm also available for consultation at bargain rates. :-}
I also enjoyed impeaching the perps. I found that I have a certain talent at that. I can't imagine why.
No. I an absolutly positive. The comm won't be in writing though, it'll be an audible and it would take someone like that speech therapist from the Chicago area to do it. I'm not sure how well she see's but her awareness of sound and touch is excellent. Apparently she never had a speech therapist. She can only vocalize sounds on an exhale.
The short
In PVS, there is no awareness, so affect(emotion) is inappropriate. Response to stimulation is not repeatable, their is no recognizable pattern to stimulation/response. ect. There's even a doc that did an evaluation, with a balloon. He was caught making a comment on tape "about following it a little bit", but is reported he later denied any response at all in court. The evaluation was bogus. She was trying her hardest(a display of understanding and effort) and he saw that(or didn't give a damn), so instead of keeping up with her, he nonchalantly huried it up. She recognized and reached out for Dad.(audio) She has recall, awareness and a lot of other things. I was expecting something tricky. She has more than most democrats.
As many appropriate med folks as possible should be given this media stuff, and give their opinions whether the woman is in a PVS. Then present the pile, start in small packs to get it going, to the feds and Ashcroft's office. Include the appropriate stuff from the Terrisfight.org for at least:
It's inconcievable that in any gathering of such docs, that such agreement on an erroneous observation could be reached, unless they were directed to come to certain conclutions. Greer commented that it was all high quality. It was rubbish.
Conspiracy *****************
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > Sec. 241.
Sec. 241. - Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. **************
It should also be sent to the appropriate states where they are licenced to practice medicine. I'm sure all of them and the feds have fraud satutes.
If that fat a*s r. king could get the benefit of a fed civil rights violation, this poor woman should.
It is so good to see someone come right out and say this, black and white.
The video, which shows Terri alert and laughing and trying to speak, further indicates attempts at rehabilitative therapy, also banned by the courts.
My God in heaven.
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