Former Student Sues Yale for $110 Million

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[drwoof]

Correct. Was accused of being ‘sexist’ by a malcontented woman I supervised at work. Led to an ‘investigation’. There was zero evidence, of course. Her argument was that “She could just tell” I was sexist. I asked that my hiring record be considered (mostly women), and that every single woman I’d ever worked with be interviewed. It all went away. Then, after an unhinged rant by said woman about our company being “Dominated by white, heterosexual, Christian men with stay at home wives”, I fired her. She’d been poisoning the team for years, and everyone else was afraid of her.

[j.havenfarm]

I hope he wins but I think it’s appropriate to point out that the $110M is a number his lawyer pulled right out of the air. It may or may not have any relation to actual recover ale damages. Ditto each and every time you hear one of these dollar labels put on a lawsuit

[T Ruth]

Fortunately, President Trump signed a tax bill that imposes a tiny tax on these mega-scam universities.

Those with more $500,000 in assets per student are subject to a 1.4 percent tax on net investment income.

Yes, right now it's a pittance, but 1) inflation will inexorably make more and more universities subject to the tax; and 2) Congress will likely (hopefully) increase the tax, like it does every other tax.

[LeonardFMason]

YALE has an ENDOWMENT valued at $40,000,000,000.00. That is $40 BILLION dollars.

The greatest scam being perpetrated on the American people is college education.

Tuition at Yale is $60,000.00 per year and rising.

Total College/University ENDOWMENTS are in excess of a TRILLION dollars. WHY are colleges getting paid by our tax dollars to forgive an overextended student? Why aren’t colleges being made to eat this cost?

[Getready]

For applying for grants for federal and state money.
While teaching lower division courses that could be taught at a junior college just as well.
Higher education is best only at upper division and graduate levels in research subjects that need technical equipment and technical expertise. Don’t need graduate degree in drama or screenwriting or languages.
Waste of money. Easy to forge a diploma anyway...
Take a few classes and read a few good textbooks and be good at it and no one will know if you went to Yale or another institution of higher learning.

[Chicory]

Thanks to each of you!

This seems like an interesting econ problem...

[Stosh]

“Fortunately, President Trump signed a tax bill that imposes a tiny tax on these mega-scam universities.”

I did not know that (and I probably should have).

And it’s about time - at some of the better known schools, in some years, the earnings on the endowment are enough to cover the tuition costs of every undergraduate in the college - and that’s with tuitions that typically increase at more than twice the rate of the cost of living.

[Moltke]

Very good points, and perhaps for that reason (outrageous demands) some legal systems provide that 1. Court fees are based on the demand; and 2. Loser pays the winner based on that demand (as well as the court costs).

Watch all those triple million digit suits melt away like snow in the Sahara.

The *only* losers in those systems are greedy lawyers.

[Svartalfiar]

The entire concept of qualified immunity needs to go.

ruled that the accuser, a fellow student, shouldn’t receive “qualified immunity” from her testimony in a school hearing

Qualified immunity is fine in a limited sense when it's for officials acting under the law, within the law. That said, I don't see how qualified immunity would apply in this case...?

[Lurker]

“ Qualified immunity is fine in a limited sense when it’s for officials acting under the law, within the law.”

Except that’s not how things are now. Haven’t been that way in quite some time. Give the government an inch and it’ll take 35 miles so fast your head will spin. Maybe if we could trust “officials” to act within the law I’d feel differently.

But they don’t. So I don’t.

And it was a ridiculous argument to make in this case. There’s no conceivable way this student or the administration would be covered by it.

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[j.havenfarm]

I’m not against reforms of the legal system, but I don’t think this is a problem that needs to be fixed. The lawyers on the other side aren’t fooled or intimated by the number and the discovery and other preparation are the same in a given case and are driven by the facts, not by the amount of the demand

[Svartalfiar]

Except that’s not how things are now. Haven’t been that way in quite some time. Give the government an inch and it’ll take 35 miles so fast your head will spin. Maybe if we could trust “officials” to act within the law I’d feel differently.

I'm not saying it's overused and exploited way beyond what it should be, but that doesn't mean there aren't some situations were it should be applicable.


And it was a ridiculous argument to make in this case. There’s no conceivable way this student or the administration would be covered by it.

My argument was to your statement that "The entire concept of qualified immunity needs to go.". Not this particular instance.
And my first post even questioned how it would apply in this case.

[Svartalfiar]

Except that’s not how things are now. Haven’t been that way in quite some time. Give the government an inch and it’ll take 35 miles so fast your head will spin. Maybe if we could trust “officials” to act within the law I’d feel differently.

I'm not saying it's overused and exploited way beyond what it should be, but that doesn't mean there aren't some situations were it should be applicable.


And it was a ridiculous argument to make in this case. There’s no conceivable way this student or the administration would be covered by it.

My argument was to your statement that "The entire concept of qualified immunity needs to go.". Not this particular instance.
And my first post even questioned how it would apply in this case.