Posted on 06/18/2007 12:19:13 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
It’s a private settlement, details won’t see the light of day.
People vs Crystal Mangum BETTER happen. There’d be no Nifong situation in the first place without this lying [fill in your own descriptive noun].
Or did something already happen in the court of law to ensure this never happens?
I would go after the one or two individuals who organized the 88 — watch the other cowards scamper away and let those organizers twist in the wind.
Nor will there ever be. The settlement is going to be a closely guarded secret.
I suspect this will end all litigation between the three defendants and Duke and the Faculty.
Sorry MB. Looks like they won't be needing your final argument skills after all.
“I would like to see the humiliation of the Duke 88, the Prez of Duke, the race baiting press and NiFong publicly.”
Yes, but you were not one of the ones who were wronged, and who chose to take this settlement with it’s privacy clause.
Hhhhm
You have to figure Duke covered the legal fees, and I’m pretty confident each of these three young men just got a check for seven figures.
Now what about the Gang of 88?
The statement appears to me to put the 88 out of reach for litigation. Just a guess, but I wouldn’t doubt that this was THE major worry of Duke University in settling this out of court. I hope the three LaCrosse players got a healthy pound of flesh.
Sad that the 88 elitist leftists in the faculty will never be held accountable....but it looks that way.
I wish some wealthy sympathizer would buy bill boards across the country and just list the names of the 88 professors from hell for everyone to remember and maybe fire off an e-mail or two to those losers!
Speed is of the essence. Liberal guilt must be assuaged before the fall semester begins when the PC algebra can resume:
white+male+wealth=evil
For the record:
Duke tuition 2007-2008 school year: $34,335
http://www.registrar.duke.edu/bulletins/Undergraduate/2007-08/financial.pdf
I bet we know within 24 hours. America leaks.
I imagine that the 88 are included, for reasons of agency law and respondeat superior that are of interest to nobody but lawyers. Any good release will include "all agents, employees, and contractors of defendant," and that certainly includes the 88, despicable as they are.
If Duke was frightened enough (or didn't offer enough money), a settlement agreement may have excepted the faculty members of shame, but I doubt it.
My educated guess (I tried civil cases for about 15 years) is that the settlement is legal fees and all other expenses times three. Three times special damages (out of pocket money) is the rule of thumb for an early settlement. That should be enough to compensate for the 88's misconduct . . . and avoiding the misery and expense of a trial, for both sides.
“He brushed off their behavior by stating they were reacting to Nifong”
next up.......3 victims vs deep-pocketed State of NC, Nifongs employer
Because the students agreed to this condition of the offer.
Wild guess. Duke pays each player $20,000,000 plus their legal fees. Players leave Duke University and gang of 88 alone.
No one will confirm or deny it.
Duke probably needed a special printer to print checks with that many zeroes.
It doesn’t seem as if any further actions will be taken against the Stalinist Committee of 88. The statement by the three wrongly accused young men made brief reference to “...others determined to railroad Duke lacross players...”
That was probably a reference to those pathetic excuses of professors. I’m glad Duke had to pay up, but real measures to improve Duke University have still not been undertaken. The president of Duke University is both a coward and an accessory to an intended frame-up, and he must go. The Stalinist committee of 88 need to be immediately disciplined. What is a university if it is not it’s faculty? Those posers need to be removed from Duke University as soon as possible. Whatever knowledge they claim to bring to Duke has been far overshadowed by their lack of honesty, integrity, character, courage, and committment to any man’s fair and decent treatment in our legal system.
Understood - However, the crime was public; brought with public dollars. The lacrosse team is certainly the greatest victim, but the accusations were meant to indite all white middle-class young men. Therefore society is also a victim of this outrage and as such my wish is not for the benefit of the players rather for all of society. It is how we keep this kind of thing from happening again (perhaps even to my own children). Some public shame and humilation will be a better deterrent to make our society safer from false public accusations!
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