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Will I Ever See the $36 Million Oberlin College Owes Me?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by studegator, Sep 1, 2022.

  1. murphree_hall

    murphree_hall VIP Member

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    But… must every case be a deterrent? Must every award make a statement? Sometimes, you should just get back what you put in plus a little bit for your trouble.

    I’m not surprised a far left liberal like you would advocate for this redistribution of wealth. :D
     
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  2. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    I think when real harm is done to someone in a non measurable quantity, by a powerful entity with means, it does change things. To me this is the legal version of the bully on the playground getting put in their place.

    As for my position on redistribution of wealth, its sort of a biblical premise and i have certainly been called a RINO for my position :D.
     
  3. murphree_hall

    murphree_hall VIP Member

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    My views on this are way too long to type here, and would probably get a lot of bacon from you and my other far left liberal friends. In general, though, I hate huge settlements. I kind of like being a conservative on an issue. Maybe I’ll flip. :D
     
  4. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Nah. Just find your comfort zone taking arrows right here in the middle. There is plenty of room. :D
     
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  5. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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  6. partdopy

    partdopy GC Hall of Fame

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    Well, looks like a college organizing, facilitating and encouraging protests against small businesses and defaming them with false accusations of racism isn't covered by the first amendment. If only there was some type of language in the constitution that explains why. Oh, wait, it's the first 5 words of the amendment - Congress shall make no law
     
  7. gator_lawyer

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    The Fourteenth Amendment incorporated the First Amendment against the States. Derp.

    (In other words, the First Amendment applies to state governments too. And that includes state laws that authorize lawsuits and legal liability.)
     
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  8. danmanne65

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    And didn’t she ask for McDonald’s to just cover her medical copays and McDonald’s lawyered up. McDonald’s also knows that they steep their coffee hotter than normal. The judgement was for one days extra profit for steeping coffee to hot.
     
  9. studegator

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    Oberlin adds risk manager after Gibson’s Bakery lawsuit and too many others | The College Fix

    The board recognized our claims history was a lot greater than it should be for an institution of Oberlin’s size,” Trustee Chuck Birenbaum told the campus newspaper.

    “The number of lawsuits, employment cases, Title IX claims, personal injury cases, the Gibson’s case — which we can call a torts case — all these claims demonstrated that Oberlin needed to take a hard look at itself in some ways that it hasn’t before,” Birenbaum, an employment and labor attorney by trade, told the campus newspaper. “One of the things that [Oberlin] did was it sought professional advice on risk management.”
     
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