Is your daughter's mouth worth $80g?

[HandsomeHarley]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/26/3961605/daughters-facebook-boast-costs.html

Guy gets a settlement that includes a confidentiality clause. Big-mouth daughter brags on Facebook. Case overturned.

What part of confidentiality do you not understand?

 

[Double J]

I've known some people's daughters whose mouths were priceless. ;D

 

[WCIBN]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/26/3961605/daughters-facebook-boast-costs.html

Guy gets a settlement that includes a confidentiality clause. Big-mouth daughter brags on Facebook. Case overturned.

What part of confidentiality do you not understand?

Boo to you Harley for posting a link the the Miami Herald story that has NO PHOTOS of the daughter. Should have used the UK tabloids, liked the the Daily Mail, where you can always find some photos.

see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569226/Daughters-SUCK-IT-Facebook-boast-costs-ex-headmaster-80000-discrimination-settlement-against-prep-school.html

 

[The Big Ragu]

Thing is, I kind of wish I hadn't ever seen her.

 

[poindexter]

Thing is, I kind of wish I hadn't ever seen her.

Yeah, its kinda not possible to look more annoying.

This story warms my heart. Love it.

 

[Starman]

SUCK IT

(Although not mine)

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Yeah, that story kinda feels like everyone involved got exactly what they deserved. The school was found at fault for age discrimination, and now every Google search of the place will show that. But the family still gets nothing, because this idiot and very annoying looking girl cost them the settlement, and now her dumbassery will live forever online too. It's the rare case that makes everyone happy! (except those involved)

 

[Songbird]

I've known some people's daughters whose mouths were priceless. ;D

Reminds me of the daughter from American Dad who walks out of her bedroom after a guy -- in front of her family -- and has a big ol' blotchy wet spot on her T-shirt. That was a really edgy moment for primetime TV. Maybe have been the pilot.

 

[hondo]

How long do you get grounded for costing Daddy 80 large?

 

[Gator]

How long do you get grounded for costing Daddy 80 large?

No Mercedes for a week.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Somebody's daughter's mouth was worth about 75 bucks last night! OH!

 

[DeskMonkey1]

I have no sympathy for them. At all.

But, it seems to me that if they were wrong enough to have to pay $80,000 than the academy really doesn't deserve to have it back.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I have no sympathy for them. At all.

But, it seems to me that if they were wrong enough to have to pay $80,000 than the academy really doesn't deserve to have it back.

Settlements typically don't assign wrong or right to the matter. The two parties settled before a court could find in favor of anyone.

Litigating things can be crazy expensive. Sometimes parties that are sued make the choice to pay a relatively low settlement amount, rather than incurring a higher cost in lawyers fees to litigate it. Even if they think they did nothing wrong. It's an economic decision.

 

[User 4332]

I have no sympathy for them. At all.

But, it seems to me that if they were wrong enough to have to pay $80,000 than the academy really doesn't deserve to have it back.

Settlements typically don't assign wrong or right to the matter. The two parties settled before a court could find in favor of anyone.

Litigating things can be crazy expensive. Sometimes parties that are sued make the choice to pay a relatively low settlement amount, rather than incurring a higher cost in lawyers fees to litigate it. Even if they think they did nothing wrong. It's an economic decision.

What's odd here, though, is that they're likely to end up spending close to the $80k, if not more, in lawyers fees defending the decision not to give over the check. I'd ballpark the Court of Appeal cost at $40k alone, and there was the preliminary hearing at the trial court plus a potential trip to the Florida Supreme Court, which should push the cost north of $100k.

Also, the confidentiality agreement itself seems odd. It only allowed the principal to disclose it to his wife, not his daughter. And the daughter didn't disclose the terms of the agreement, only its existence. It's unusual for the agreement to bar disclosure of a settlement since the existence of a settlement is often put on record at the court.

 

[93Devil]

He was over 50 when she was born. Am I doing that correctly?

 

[Wenders]

He was over 50 when she was born. Am I doing that correctly?

If she's a freshman or sophomore at Boston College, yes.

And what was with that Halloween(?) costume of her with a cardboard box on her head that had "Sylvia Plath's oven" written on it? WTF? Is she Sylvia Plath? I'm so confused.

 

[The Big Ragu]

He was over 50 when she was born. Am I doing that correctly?

If she's a freshman or sophomore at Boston College, yes.

And what was with that Halloween(?) costume of her with a cardboard box on her head that had "Sylvia Plath's oven" written on it? WTF? Is she Sylvia Plath? I'm so confused.

Not sure what the costume was, but Sylvia Plath committed suicide by sealing off her kitchen and sticking her head in the oven -- she died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The costume sounds pretty stupid.

 

[expendable]

At first, I thought this thread was about getting your kid braces.

 

[Paynendearse]

This is why some people were never intended to have big voices. And another reason why Facebook is the dah-bull.