Posted on 10/13/2004 1:31:31 PM PDT by scottybk
O'Reilly in trouble!
You can make any editorial comments you want in a complaint.
Good homework
I thought the same same. I took a course on Employment Discrimination/Harrassment last semster at law school. I have a feeling O'Blowhard is finished, by the sounds of this complaint. Somehow, this behavior just seems "in charachter" w/ this clown. His ego is huge, and since Rush has come back from his drug problem stronger than ever, O'Blowhard has been green w/ envy. O'Blow thought he was going to pick up all Rush's fans and become the Howard Stern of the right, but it didn't happen. So long, Bill. Your books will soon be on ebay for 1 cent, and not selling! Remember what happened to the Frugal Gourment? Bill's goose is cooked!
He is an admitted liberal Democrat who is voting for Kerry.
Tough luck O'Reilly you leftist fifth columnist - you're headed for the REAL no-spin zone!
Maybe this has something to do with why he was soft on the Dan Rather forgery deal...
It'll make it to court, because he's her employer.
Even if tossed out, though, if she has tapes he's toast.
I'll withhold comment until the details come out. But O'Reilly can be seen as a target due to his big bank account.
Sexual Orientation Bias?Morgan Stanley > The Curry Scandal > Sexual Orientation and Racial Discrimination
Sexual Orientation Discrimination at Morgan Stanley?
Christian Leigh Curry, a black former employee of Morgan Stanley's real estate department, filed a lawsuit against his former employee alleging discrimination based on his perceived sexual orientation, a violation of new York law. He was fired on grounds of padding his expense accounts, even though no warnings had been given, just a few days after his nude photos appeared in a gay porn magazine Playguy.
Mr. Curry claimed that he himself was not gay but the company thought he was gay because of his photos in the gay magazines. He claimed that his colleagues called him a "monkey" and a "faggot," and that one manager said he had "never seen someone laugh so hard as when I showed the magazine of that faggot" to another member of the firm.
Racial Discrimination Allegations Too?
Mr. Curry is the son of a prominent well-to-do black family and had his education at Columbia University. His father was one of the few minority members of the selective Shinnecock Hills club.
He claimed that a senior white member of his department one day saw him wearing a Shinnecock Hills tie and remarked: "That club is very exclusive. Are you a caddie?" According to him he was also asked to "put on an Afro" wig and fake oversize lips in front of Bill Lewis, who is black and a member of Morgan's real-estate department, at a company Christmas party.
According to media, Mr. Curry has privately admitted to a mutual friend that he did not actually see the words "monkey" and "faggot" written on his desk at Morgan Stanley. Moreover, though Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest for him at the firm's headquarters on July 15, 1999, apparently the very same night, Sharpton attended a party for Black Enterprise publisher Earl Graves, and he was approached by a number of black leaders -- including Johnnie Cochran; Hugh Price, head of the National Urban League; and Morgan Stanley's Bill Lewis -- who said Sharpton "didn't fully understand the Curry situation and what he was getting involved in." Sharpton didn't hold any further protests on Curry's behalf.
His relationship with the black community was difficult to access. Once he had given $100,000 to the John Starks Foundation (for disadvantaged youths). Finally, when the settlement with Morgan Stanley was announced, the company did provide $1 million for a black organization, Urban League.
Discrimination Law Suit
Curry's lawyer, Benedict Morelli, files a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Morgan accusing it of racial and sexual orientation discrimination. The 26-page document filed in State Supreme Court named 13 individuals from the firm as defendants, including John Mack, the firm's president and chief operating officer; Philip Purcell, chief executive, and Carol Bernheim, the in-house counsel. Within a few days, Morgan Stanley suspends two lawyers and Christine Edwards resigns. Morgan's chairman, Philip Purcell, admitted that the firm made serious mistakes.
Case Number 99-cv-4035 Christian L. Curry v. Morgan Stanley, came to an end in September 2000 when the attorney for Curry, Benedict Morelli of New York and attorney for Morgan - Martin London of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, New York, settled in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York with Judge Denny Chin presiding. There was no admission of fault by either party but a "donation" of $1 million by Morgan Stanley to the the National Urban League was part of the deal.
good work thanks
Just read the complaint. The specificity of the words that plaintiff alleges O'Reilly spoke leads me to think that she recorded these conversations, via a device attached to her phone and/or a device on her person.
Here's an interesting legal question for lawyers may be lurking:
1 - It appears that the plaintiff's firm would have a motive to file this suit - apart from or in addition to a motive related to the interests of the plaintif - which would be to defend against O'Reilly's suit for extortion. For if the plaintiff's firm did NOT file the complaint, it would lend credibility to O'Reilly's claim that the attempt to hit him up for 60 million prior to filing was not a legitimate request for a settlement, but was extortion.
2 - But if the above is the case, then wouldn't the plaintiff's firm have a fatal or at least compromising conflict of interest?
3 - On the other hand, perhaps there should be a more individualized analysis, or else whenever a defendant wanted to knock a plaintiff's attorney out of a case, he need only file a separate suit for extortion or abuse of process or defamation or interference with contractual relations, etc.
Yeah, I know. It just smells funny, though. Like she took a single comment that may have been inappropriate and blew up this whole shebang out of it.
Any pictures of this Crack?
He may beat the suit but his reputation will be destroyed. Couldn't happen to a nicer blowhard.
The woman left Fox for CNN and requested a return to Fox for the same money she was making previously at Fox. Why do I smell a setup? They want Fox down and out. Pretty neat way to do it. Set him up. After the CBS lie and fraud I do not put anything past the competition
Many have commented that the complaint makes it clear that the woman must have recorded some conversations in order to quote that much dialogue. If that is the case, the one thing that can settle it one way or the other is to release the tapes. Until then, this looks like a political hit against Fox to me.
The Supreme Court has inferior jurisdiction.
I heard "she" is a shemale.
bttt
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