1.4 million to Jane (I assume Tracey will now get a check instead of a trial)

Adam said:
She won't argue anything. Iowa will now have no choice but to settle. The Meyer case only sets the foundation for Tracy's case. With the proven environment of discrimination Iowa has less then 1 leg to stand on to litigate Tracy's case. If she had a shaky case before the Meyer verdict, she now has a slam dunk, home run, lottery pick, Lonzo Ball Big Balla brand shoes case. Iowa will regretfully have to settle for 2-3 times the amount of the Meyer judgment. I bet you we announce the hiring of a woman AD within 6 months as well.
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This^^^ They must settle
 
SteveGarvey1 said:
The University is going to have to pay out millions of dollars to these two ladies. Where is this money going to come from?
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The athletic department makes money hand over fist so that could be one source. However, the university, board of regents, etc. so it is quite possible that the burden falls to the taxpayers of the state of Iowa. Although honestly, some entity should have some form of insurance to cover this type of incident. Hard to say, who will get the burden, but don't you really have to thing that at the end of the day, the taxpayers will ultimately be on the hook?
 
eledmonster said:
The athletic department makes money hand over fist so that could be one source. However, the university, board of regents, etc. so it is quite possible that the burden falls to the taxpayers of the state of Iowa. Although honestly, some entity should have some form of insurance to cover this type of incident. Hard to say, who will get the burden, but don't you really have to thing that at the end of the day, the taxpayers will ultimately be on the hook?
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We have already paid for 100's of hours of legal defense from the State's Attorney General offices. Why not just pick up the whole tab?
 
SteveGarvey1 said:
3 women who worked with Barta > your opinion.

And of course we know juries never get verdicts wrong, or base their decisions on emotion, demographics or biases.

See Simpson, Orenthal James.
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Yeah and the odds any of these women are going to say anything else but that barta is a great guy and easy to work with is zero they don't want their boss mad at them....and face it Barta is the problem he messed up BIG and the jury got it 100% right unfortunately.
 
Hawk4Fan said:
Yeah and the odds any of these women are going to say anything else but that barta is a great guy and easy to work with is zero they don't want their boss mad at them....and face it Barta is the problem he messed up BIG and the jury got it 100% right unfortunately.
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They were under oath and I'm sure they could have told Barta's lawyers they weren't comfortable testifying if that was the case.

Barta messed up by not having the documentation though. You are correct about that.
 
SteveGarvey1 said:
They were under oath and I'm sure they could have told Barta's lawyers they weren't comfortable testifying if that was the case.

Barta messed up by not having the documentation though. You are correct about that.
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They weren't Barta's lawyers. They were the University of Iowa's lawyers. They were state attorneys to be exact. Imagine telling your employer that you can not testify on the companies behalf because they're lying. I'm not arguing the validity of testimony given. I am just pointing out one of the possible perspectives of our witnesses.
 
If Barta had actually documented all the complaints/insubordination and paid Gene roughly the same amount instead of $70k more, Jane would have been SOL.
 
Adam said:
They weren't Barta's lawyers. They were the University of Iowa's lawyers. They were state attorneys to be exact. Imagine telling your employer that you can not testify on the companies behalf because they're lying. I'm not arguing the validity of testimony given. I am just pointing out one of the possible perspectives of our witnesses.
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Yeah, I know they were Iowa's lawyers, just wrote that lazily.

It depends on what their testimony was I suppose. Hard to believe that they would break down in detail Gary Barta's character as it pertains to women or gay people in a positive manner if they didn't really believe it. Most people wouldn't get on the stand to testify and lie under oath because they're afraid of what their boss might say. A few might, most wouldn't. And if they testified in detail about Meyer's negative behavior, it's also unlikely that they would have done so only because they were afraid of repercussions for not doing so.
 
SteveGarvey1 said:
Yeah, I know they were Iowa's lawyers, just wrote that lazily.

It depends on what their testimony was I suppose. Hard to believe that they would break down in detail Gary Barta's character as it pertains to women or gay people in a positive manner if they didn't really believe it. Most people wouldn't get on the stand to testify and lie under oath because they're afraid of what their boss might say. A few might, most wouldn't. And if they testified in detail about Meyer's negative behavior, it's also unlikely that they would have done so only because they were afraid of repercussions for not doing so.
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I'm not disputing the validity of their testimony. Don't get me wrong, I do believe Jane was a poor employee. Just pointing out a feasible motivator for discrediting said testimony.
 
In the last interview with Barta, he said that the athletic dept has about $9M in it's reserve fund. For a $110M athletic department, that's actually pretty small. Now it looks like we are going to be paying Jane $1.4M, plus probably another $1M for treble charges because the jury found "willful" discrimination, as well as her attorneys going after another $2M. That's $4.4M. I'm guessing Tracy is going to get somewhere in the neighborhood of the same amount, which comes to $8.8M. So long reserve fund. Better hope that attendance is good this year, or we're in trouble as we've run deficits the last 2 years running.
 
tksirius said:
If Barta had actually documented all the complaints/insubordination and paid Gene roughly the same amount instead of $70k more, Jane would have been SOL.
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I'm not sure that's true. The report showed a 50% reduction in female coaches (not head coaches), several cases of disparate salaries, and Iowa trying to get into Title compliance by packing more than 60 scholarships on the rowing team. There were more problems described. Folks would do well to read the report before speculating about the outcome of this trial or any future trial. The real conflict may have centered more about Meyer and Barta battling about compliance and the personalities were secondary issues for the jury.
 
hagarwood said:
I'm not sure that's true. The report showed a 50% reduction in female coaches (not head coaches), several cases of disparate salaries, and Iowa trying to get into Title compliance by packing more than 60 scholarships on the rowing team. There were more problems described. Folks would do well to read the report before speculating about the outcome of this trial or any future trial. The real conflict may have centered more about Meyer and Barta battling about compliance and the personalities were secondary issues for the jury.
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And... that has nothing to do with Jane being discriminated against. If I recall correctly, the trial was Jane Meyer versus The University of Iowa.
 
tksirius said:
And... that has nothing to do with Jane being discriminated against. If I recall correctly, the trial was Jane Meyer versus The University of Iowa.
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My thoughts on this are pretty well documented so I'm certainly not coming at this from Jane's side by ANY stretch....

However, in civil cases like this where there isn't a "smoking gun", it's certainly fair game to establish an evidenciary trail showing a pattern of discrimination against individuals of the same gender, orientation, etc., in order to imply the same actions/treatment is happening here...
 
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