Infamous "Duke 88" (Professors Who Adjudged Lacross Guilty) To be Huge Civil Suit Targets

Dinner with other lawyers | MB26

[MindBender26]

A group of local lawyers all went to dinner least night.

Topic was Nifong and the damages NC will pay to the accused. There are questions of sovereign immunity, of course, and other issues but we all agreed that this was only the tip of the litigious iceberg.

In the civil litigation that is sure to follow, Nifong is one target, with few dollars, etc. The real targets will be the Duke 88. These are the professors who signed the now infamous letter adjudging the lacrosse players guilty and worse. That letter was then published as a full page ad in local newspapers and reprinted across the country..

These professors acted as individuals, with no corporate protection, insurance or shield. They acted outside their employment by Duke, etc. As such, they can be attacked and picked off, one at a time, with full and unrestricted individual liability, as targets of libel, slander and false light litigation. With no insurance, they wil even have to pay for their own lawyers.

Plaintiffs are well within statute of limitations.

Of course, as soon as one professor is served, he/she will go running to his/her lawyer. Their lawyer will play “let’s make a deal” by implicating others. Then they will sue the most hated professor, which will set the high dollar damages expectation for the rest of the cases. Others will then want to settle fast.

Even better, each of the three plaintiffs cam move separately against all 88 individually. The profs will fold like a house of cards.

Lots of fun. Big dollars.

[Chode]

let the wailing and gnashing of teeth commence...

[LantzALot]

IAs such, they can be attacked and picked off, one at a time, with full and unrestricted individual liability, ...

Have at 'em, I say.

[WashingtonSource]

I totally agree. There is nothing more evil thant leftist professors at universities. They despise America, Christianity, white people, men, all that is decent and good in the human heart and work tirelessly to destory all civilization, accomplishment and good and a devoted to tyranny in every form. They are beyond parasites. They are Satan’s own minions. Their evil is the worst sort of evil because it cloaks itself in respectability and “intelligence,” yet they are mediocre minds with an abhorrence to free inquiry. I hope they are all bankrupted and it serves as a lesson to the rest of the leftist slime in America’s academic institutions.

[LEARNED FOREVER]

Fascinating. If possible, update. And update often.

[sirchtruth]

See this is my point. You have the right to speak your mind in America, but you also have a responsibility to know how your words will effect society. If you're going to say something, you better know how it can be taken and the detriment it could cause.

Everyone of these 88 needs to pay a price so high this lesson will be used in how NOT to handle a racially charged case. The DBM has blame too!

At the very least these prix could apologise! Have they yet?

[Popman]

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We thank the following departments and programs for signing onto this ad with African & African American Studies: Romance Studies; Psychology: Social and Health Sciences;

Franklin Humanities Institute; Critical U.S. Studies; Art, Art History, and Visual Studies; Classical Studies; Asian & African Languages & Literature; Women’s Studies; Latino/a

Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; European Studies; Program in Education; and the Center for Documentary Studies. Because

of space limitations, the names of individual faculty and staff who signed on in support may be read at the AAAS website:http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/

. . . We want the absence of terror. But we don’t really know what that means . . . We

can’t think. That’s why we’re so silent; we can’t think about what’s on the other side of

this. Terror robs you of language and you need language for the healing to begin.

If it turns out that these students are guilty, I want them expelled. But their expulsion will only bring resolution to this

case and not the bigger problem. This is much bigger than them and throwing them out will not solve the

problem. I want the administration to acknowledge what is going on and how bad it is.

I can’t help but think about the different attention given to what has happened from what

it would have been if the guys had been not just black but participating in a different sport,

like football, something that’s not so upscale.

Everything seems up for grabs--I am only comfortable talking about this event

in my room with close friends. I am actually afraid to even bring it up in public.

But worse, I wonder now about everything. . . . If something like this happens to

me . . . What would be used against me--my clothing? Where I was?

You go to a party, you get grabbed, you get propositioned, and then you start to question yourself.

[Independent, 29 March 2006]

And this is what I’m thinking right now – Duke isn’t really responding to this. Not really.

And this, what has happened, is a disaster.

This is a social disaster.

. . . no one is really talking about how to keep the young woman herself central

to this conversation, how to keep her humanity before us . . . she doesn’t seem

to be visible in this. Not for the university, not for us.

. . . all you heard was “Black students just complain all the time, all you do is complain and self-

segregate.” And whenever we try to explain why we’re offended, it’s pushed back on us. Just the

phrase “self-segregation”: the blame is always put on us. [Independent, 29 March 2006]

Being a big, black man, it’s hard to walk anywhere at night,

and not have a campus police car slowly drive by me.

This is not a different experience for us here at Duke University. We go to class with racist classmates,

we go to gym with people who are racists....It’s part of the experience.

[Independent,29March2006]

I was talking to a white woman student who was asking me “Why do people --

and she meant black people -- make race such a big issue?”

They don’t see race. They just don’t see it.

We are listening to our students. We’re also listening to the Durham community, to Duke staff, and to each other. Regardless of the

results of the police investigation, what is apparent everyday now is the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be

objects of racism and sexism, who see illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight what they live with everyday. They know

that it isn’t just Duke, it isn’t everybody, and it isn’t just individuals making this disaster.

But it is a disaster nonetheless.

These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman and to themselves.

What Does a

Social Disaster

Sound Like?

The students know that the disaster didn’t begin on March 13th and won’t end with what the police say or the court decides. Like

all disasters, this one has a history. And what lies beneath what we’re hearing from our students are questions about the future.

This ad, printed in the most easily seen venue on campus, is just one way for us to say that we’re hearing what our students are saying.

Some of these things were said by a mixed (in every way possible) group of students on Wednesday, March 29th at an African &

African American Studies Program forum, some were printed in an issue of the Independent that came out that same day, and some

were said to us inside and outside of the classroom.

We’re turning up the volume in a moment when some of the most vulnerable among us are being asked to quiet down while we

wait. To the students speaking individually and to the protestors making collective noise, thank you for not waiting and for

making yourselves heard.

[Hoodat]

are you kidding the liberals are already covering their backsides

From your link:

The ad, titled "What does a Social Disaster Sound Like?" was mostly a compilation of statements made by Duke students in response to the incident and its immediate aftermath.

So it wasn't their words, but instead the words of the Duke student body? This coming from the enemies of personal responsibility. How typical.

[TomGuy]

After yesterday, I’m sure every shark below the Mason Dixon Line can smell the blood in the water in North Carolina...

That odor could cause John Edwards to give up his run for the White House and head for the court room. LOL

[Young Werther]

exspences

Let's hope that Nifong and the "Professors" (term applied loosely) will all be:

EX_PENSES!

Pun Intended?

[AndyJackson]

Given the clear and obvious damage, the clear conspiracy to inflict emotional distress, the resultant loss of years of life, notorious and irreperable reputations (there are those out there who will resent the Duke Lacross players for the rest of their natural lives regardless of facts), what would be an appropriate settlement? None of them should get off with less than $100,000. The ring leaders, the actual drafters of the letter, and any lawyers associated should pay a whole lot more.

[Tribune7]

Cool!

[Rosemont]

Time for the Lib 88 to pay for their misdeeds.

[Reaganesque]

What is the best thing to do in this situation? “To crush your enemies — See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I had the same thought. The lawsuit of a lifetime and Johnnycake is not involved.

[BamaAndy]

I’m with you on this—and feel the same about trial lawyers genrally—legal extortion. But in this case, it is just desserts. I surely hope these cases will be filed. Great!!!

[period end of story]

This is gonna get good.

[ErnBatavia]

I’m sure every shark below the Mason Dixon Line can smell the blood in the water in North Carolina

For sure....I'd bet that Viagra sales have even fallen off amongst the legal world.

[MarkT]

Actually, if the professors have homowners insurance, their insurance companies will defend the libel (i.e. the publication of the letter). It should be pretty simple, frankly. Sue each of the professors for the families’ entire legal bill and then settle with each professor for, say, $100,000 per family. The students’s families are more than made whole and the insurance companies, after defending and paying, drop their coverage of those idiot professors.

[Tribune7]

Fire them all!

No, no, no. They need to work so their paychecks can garnished.

[maggief]

http://iambecauseweare.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/duke-professor-karla-holloway-on-the-aftermath-of-the-lacrosse-incident/

The Scholar and Feminist Online
Published by The Barnard Center for Research on Women
www.barnard.edu/sfonline

Issue 4.3
The Cultural Value of Sport: Title IX and Beyond
Summer 2006

Coda: Bodies of Evidence
Karla FC Holloway

When things go wrong, when sports teams beget bawdy behavior and debasement of other human beings, the bodies left on the line often have little in common with those enclosed in the protective veneer of the world of college athletics. At Duke University this past spring, the bodies left to the trauma of a campus brought to its knees by members of Duke University’s Lacrosse team were African American and women. I use the kneeling metaphor with deliberate intent. It was precisely this demeanor towards women and girls that mattered here. The Lacrosse team’s notion of who was in service of whom and the presumption of privilege that their elite sports’ performance had earned seemed their entitlement as well to behaving badly and without concern for consequence.

(snip)