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Unindicted Duke LAX players sue Duke University
abc11 ^ | 12/18/2007 | Locomotive Breath

Posted on 12/18/2007 11:12:12 AM PST by Locomotive Breath

By Tamara Gibbs

DURHAM -- In a filing Tuesday in Federal Court, unindicted Duke Lacrosse players are suing Duke University, the City of Durham, Duke University professors, Mike Nifong and the DNA lab involved in the case.

The suit also names doctors and nurses who treated the alleged victim the night she claimed she'd been raped at a party. The players are also suing City Manager Patrick Baker and former Durham Police Chief Stephen Chalmers. As part of the investigation, the unindicted players had to give up DNA samples and were named in the school paper.

In the 404-page lawsuit, the players say that Duke University, the City of Durham and the other defendants were part of a "conspiracy to railroad 47 Duke University students" based on "the transparently false claim of rape, sexual offense, and kidnapping made by a clinically unreliable accuser." Also in the lawsuit, the players say that the accuser's claim was "taken virtually from her lips and fashioned into a weapon in the hands of those who would leverage outrage."

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TOPICS: Extended News; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 88; dukelax; dukeu; durham; gangof88; lawsuit; libel; persecution; reputation; slander; suethebtrds
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To: Larry Lucido

[Not sure I’m on board with this part. Depose as witnesses maybe, but sue? Not unless maybe they falsified evidence or something.]

Unfortunatley this a typical tactic of the scum lawyers. Sue everyone and see what happens. The nurses and doctors will likely be released from the suit by the court AFTER they run up huge legal bills with no chance of recovering any of their losses or their good names.


81 posted on 12/18/2007 12:09:52 PM PST by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: MPJackal

Actually she had so little sperm in her that the SBI refused to even test the rape kit. The way they found what they found is that it was sent to an independent lab with a very sensitive test. It was so sensitive that apparently the lab director contaminated the test with a single flake of skin anf that was picked up too.


82 posted on 12/18/2007 12:09:57 PM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: Enterprise

Excellent!

83 posted on 12/18/2007 12:12:49 PM PST by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: MindBender26

If the Ho had told the truth, would she still have written down rape? An inflamed vagina takes time. The rape would have had to occur for “hours”.


84 posted on 12/18/2007 12:12:53 PM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: Locomotive Breath

Great news.


85 posted on 12/18/2007 12:13:52 PM PST by JLS
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To: 1rudeboy

Is she in prison?


86 posted on 12/18/2007 12:15:05 PM PST by kalee
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To: Locomotive Breath
Durham Gazette

Monday, November 22, 2009

Durham, NC ... The City of Durham filed for bankruptcy protection today in the continuing fall-out from the Duke false rape scandal of 2006...
87 posted on 12/18/2007 12:16:48 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Islander7
Maybe, maybe not.

If the emergency room nurse were not qualified by education or experience to perform the test and express an opinion, her actions could be found to be tortuous. If her supervisor and employer knew of her lack of qualification and allowed her to conduct the test and render a professional opinion nonetheless, they could be found to have ratified her tort or to have committed an independent one.

88 posted on 12/18/2007 12:17:18 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Old North State
Yes, it’s very painful for me, having gone through virtually the same process with my son three years before this Duke fiasco hit. We, too, were chastised by school officials, both publicly and privately. Even after our son’s accuser admitted on the witness stand that she had made it up.

There are, and always will be, people who will be able to pick at splinters while tripping over the log. President Broadhead will never admit he almost ruined the lives of hundreds of people in his rush to take up the standard for a liar — whatever the circumstances that prompted the possibility of her lie to present itself. Broadhead will never accept it. If he could EVER see what he did, his family would have to hide the razor blades.

89 posted on 12/18/2007 12:18:17 PM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: Mr. Lucky; Islander7

That’s “tortious”, by the way.


90 posted on 12/18/2007 12:19:10 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Locomotive Breath

Here’s the link to the plaintiffs’ law firm: www.ninthstreetlaw.com

Duke Law School graduates; one also teaches at the law School- sweet!


91 posted on 12/18/2007 12:20:00 PM PST by BienHoa69-70 RVN
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To: kalee

Why do you ask?


92 posted on 12/18/2007 12:20:04 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Islander7

> “The nurses and doctors will likely be released from the suit by the court AFTER they run up huge legal bills with no chance of recovering any of their losses or their good names.”

You obviously have not been following the case very carefully, have you. The “nurse” who first treated the “victim” repeatedly changed her story about what Mangum said every time Nifong changed his story. The nurse deserves to be charged.


93 posted on 12/18/2007 12:22:24 PM PST by jim_trent
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To: Tulane
nothing amounting to a tort on the part of the others

You sound like an attorney, so perhaps you are right. But from a layman's perspective I would think requiring them to take DNA tests, canceling their Lacrosse season, public humiliation/accusations, all based on false testimony, which was known to be false by Nifong, would all amount to something.

Time will tell.

94 posted on 12/18/2007 12:22:42 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: Eva

Agree completely, Eva. None of those 88 are capable of holding a real job. Let’s face it. Lib arts departments are largely holding areas for folks who really have no talent. (Apologies to those who hold these positions with integrity...we all know you are there. However, it might help your rapidly shrinking image to actually rise up against the loons ruining your reputation. Get rid of ‘em. ) Tenure is for the talentless.


95 posted on 12/18/2007 12:22:54 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: BienHoa69-70 RVN

More on Ekstrand from the Law School: www.law.duke.edu/fac/ekstrand/


96 posted on 12/18/2007 12:24:12 PM PST by BienHoa69-70 RVN
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To: Locomotive Breath

I think the Humanities Dean who fabricated outrage in her “We’re Listening” newspaper ad did it because she knew that rather than be punished, she would be rewarded for her call-to-riot. However, if sued, she’d get a pass. Suing could backfire on the victims and those that support them. Caution.


97 posted on 12/18/2007 12:27:00 PM PST by Havisham
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To: MurryMom

Have no fear. She’s well thought of by the Red Chinese Army.


98 posted on 12/18/2007 12:31:45 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: Tulane
This is not a case in which the State wants to or will claim Sovereign Immunity.
99 posted on 12/18/2007 12:35:46 PM PST by MindBender26 (Is FR worth our time anymore? All the "fun" sees to be gone.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Because I think she ought to be.

I live 35 mi from Durham and haven’t heard anything about her for a while.


100 posted on 12/18/2007 12:37:56 PM PST by kalee
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