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U of I loses $1.4 million in lawsuit

BigLame said:
They do things RIGHT in IC at the U of I

Amirite?
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My mom was an employee of Iowa State and experienced age discrimination. My perspective is "it happens everywhere" and believe this is a just verdict.
 
CyTwins said:
I guess if Pollard hired Fran and gave Ferentz a contract like that I would dislike him too
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Your takes are always...
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I was wrong and the lady did get $1.4 million. Those damn, greedy lawyers are getting another $2 million on top of that award. Disgusting.
 
SwirlyBird said:
Not sure if mentioned yet but lack of documentation was probably to avoid information getting out through freedom of info act.
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I've heard this as well. And I guess my reaction is, "Tough ****." If you don't document an action because you're worried about how it will look if the press gets a hold of it, maybe you should re-examine your reasoning for doing the action in the first place.
 
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Have there been any comments from hok expert JDM? I haven't seen anything.
 
It was Griesbaum's firing in 2014 that set all this in motion, right? The team was coming off a 13-8 record the year before. What was Barta's reasoning for firing her?
 
ISU85 said:
It was Griesbaum's firing in 2014 that set all this in motion, right? The team was coming off a 13-8 record the year before. What was Barta's reasoning for firing her?
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He thought she retaliated against players who brought concerns to him after he talked to Meyer about them.
 
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am no fan of the Iowa Athletic Department. However, I am not too quick to judge on this. I have been close to lawsuits of a similar nature that had absolutely no merit and I was flabbergasted at how far they still could go even when things were done the right way. They easily nailed their own coffins shut by not properly documenting. No doubt they had things they thought better were not available for freedom of information requests but they paid the price for deciding it was better to hide them. It is a $1.4M lesson.
 
VeloClone said:
Anyone who knows me knows that I am no fan of the Iowa Athletic Department. However, I am not too quick to judge on this. I have been close to lawsuits of a similar nature that had absolutely no merit and I was flabbergasted at how far they still could go even when things were done the right way. They easily nailed their own coffins shut by not properly documenting. No doubt they had things they thought better were not available for freedom of information requests but they paid the price for deciding it was better to hide them. It is a $1.4M lesson.
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I don't think that's the case here though. I don't know that "not properly documenting" is the reason Iowa lost.
 
Tornado man said:
I don't think that's the case here though. I don't know that "not properly documenting" is the reason Iowa lost.
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It's certainly part of it. According to her lawyers, they felt another reason for the decision was how the day after she gave him a list of complaints, he reassigned her to what amounted to a do-nothing job.
 
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If their reason for not documenting was due to FOIA, I'm not they understand what the FOIA is meant for.
 
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