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.

[coloradan]

On a tangentially related note, I called my Congressional rep last week, and suggested a new federal law, namely, that if you frame someone, falsely testify, or knowingly falsely prosecute someone, and you are convicted, your punishment would then be the same as the crime you framed, falsely testified, or falsely prosecuted the other person for. If enacted, the Nifongs of the future would jail time equivalent to multiple (at least three) counts of felony rape.

[ExGeeEye]

87 of them have written another letter. And the beat goes on.

[jgilbert63]

I wonder if each of the teachers can be targeted separately by each of the guys convicted. Triple the number of lawsuits against each teacher. At least then, if the teachers get past one jury, they have two more to clear and that much more in legal fees. As Tony Montana said in Scarface, “I bury you cockaroaches.”

[blam]

A lot of damage and misery from the false accusations of one low-life Black girl and we are told "it will serve no use purpose to prosecute."

Justice in America. We've lost it folks.

[Suzy Quzy]

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

[mewzilla]

Durham-in-Wonderland

[WashingtonSource]

and country codes, too

[RobbyS]

For me, Schadenfeude. ;-/. For once political correctness, class envy gets what it deserves.

[tillacum]

I mentioned the other day, something must be done to these professors. I’m hoping, hoping, hoping. It will be fun to watch the rats run.

[jgilbert63]

Each of the guys charged...not convicted

[minus_273]

here it is:
http://listening.nfshost.com/listening.htm

my favorite part, read the fine print at the bottom

“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";

[Bean Counter]

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

[ExGeeEye]

A link to the original ad is available in the article I just linked above.

[Eroteme]

Sounds like a fun night!

Don’t forget the deep pockets of Time-Warner, owners of Court TV, home of the lovely slanderer, Nancy Grace.

[minus_273]

not even not convicted, i believe they were declared innocent and no crime occured.

[trek]

Thanks for the Father’s Day Present. That made my day!!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

100 percent agree. The young men have been damaged. The 88 should pay.

[RAY]

It will server those “politically right” & “probably leftist”, professor right. Those pompous bastards need to learn that they are too not above the law!

[elhombrelibre]

For too long, the Left has gotten away with slander because the worst they can say or write about other Americans fits their ideology and psychological needs. It’s high time they had to pay for this slander.

[TomGuy]

Those faculty and many of the media programs that skewered the 3 young men. CourtTV comes to mind for their coverage.

I posted this comment during the live thread yesterday:

Nifong Court Findings Being Read Now!!!
	Posted by TomGuy to SandRat On News/Activism 06/16/2007 2:03:43 PM CDT · 68 of 152 The 80-some faculty at Duke may be on the phones to their lawyers, too. They may still have culpability for their published letter.