Ward Churchill displays his award!
Posted on 04/02/2009 3:39:11 PM PDT by Pondo
Ward Churchill won his case against the University of Colorado today as a Denver jury unanimously decided he was fired in retaliation for his controversial essay on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The jury gave Churchill $1 for
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Ward Churchill displays his award!
Giving him $1 though entitles him to hundreds of thousand of dollars in legal fees.
In these civil rights cases, if the jury finds that his rights were violated, they must find for him. If they find that such violations did not cause him actual economic damage, they must award at least $1.
My bet is the jury thought his free speech rights were violated when CU started poking around his file after his comments. Then, when they found something that led to his firing, that was of his own doing, so he deserved no monetary award. So they gave him $1 for the poking around in his file after he exercised his free speech rights.
See post #62
They must have found a jury of total morons. Churchill was fired for lying about his academic credentials and his idiotic statements about 9-11 had nothing to do with his termination.
“...when they found something that led to his firing, that was of his own doing...”
If so, then the veredict sets the mood against reinstating him, right? Does it say somehow that his firing was actually rightful?
I think the judge will be hard-pressed to reinstate him. But that’s just my opinion. The faculty board found against him, so there were obviously professional faults besides the free speech issue.
The founder of the weather website apparently just thought it would be cool to name the company after the communist revolutionary/'domestic terrorist' group.
From the Weather Underground (weather) website...
Company Background:
In 1991, while working under the direction of Perry Samson at the University of Michigan, PhD candidate Jeff Masters wrote a menu-based telnet interface which displayed real-time weather information around the world. By 1992, the two servers his system used were rattling off their desks as "um-weather" became the most popular service on the Internet.
In 1993, Perry and Jeff recruited Jeff Ferguson and Alan Steremberg to help build a system to bring Internet weather into K-12 classrooms. Chris Schwerzler joined Alan in his work on the Mac gopher client, "Blue Skies," which won numerous awards for its interactive imagery and text information. In the interest of expanding "Blue Skies" to other platforms, Dave Brooks, author of the Windows "WS Gopher" client, developed "Blue Skies for Windows" in 1994.
The growing Internet weather program was given the name Weather Underground, a reference to the 1960's radical group that also originated at the University of Michigan, which had taken its name from the lyrics to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows."
I haven’t seen the jury instructions posted anywhere, so I’m not totally sure as to the exact findings.
In a lot of cases, the law is a ass.
Getting a hell of a lot worse since about 1960.
After listening to idiot juror Bethany Newill being interviewed by Caplis and Silverman, I could forsee Naves, a graduate of CU, awarding Churchill absolutely nothing.
Pay it in pennies and cram it up his . . . .
A “win” doesn’t necessarily entitle him to attorney fees.
I bet he will do so, and walk away with a cool mil.
He should stay fired.
Maybe they’ll tax it at 90%
I just went to “nndb.com” to look at his bio, and there was a link to CU. I wondered why that would be, since he is no longer with the university, and was greeted by a picture of a creature much more better looking than he:
http://www.colorado.edu/EthnicStudies/faculty/w_churchill.html
I understand others’ consternation, however, the jury decision will be used as a point of guidance for any decision-making body reviewing his claims in the future.
This was the jury saying “Yeah, maybe you were dismissed because of the essay and not the other listed reasons, but WE DON’T CARE!! WE ABHOR YOU! And here’s a dollar to show you how much we care (we only wish it could be $0...)”
If the phony indian tries to get reinstated - the regents and other profs will look at the damages award and tell him, “you know, in light of this, we really don’t think you are worth too much here at our University...”
Believe me, I am not just talking through my hat on this. I actually know some of the people (directly involved in this) at CU.
He is not about to make a triumphant return with full back pay and benefits...not even close. He is not a welcome presence.
Churchill has only begun to get himself slapped silly. Watch and see...heh-heh-heh!
Good. The U of C should never have hired him (and probably more like him) in the first place.
Now it is up to parents and the Alum to make the University pay for it’s mistake.
Right that is the way I read it there is NO appeal! LMAO the fraud got a dollar
One of the jurors was interviewed on the radio. Pretty clueless. She said that the jury WANTED TO AWARD him money and they (the jury) talked about it a long time. She then implied that since Churchill never told them how much money he wanted they didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t believe my ears.
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