OT: Lawsuit against Kentucky Radio Show Hosts
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Initial thoughts are to tell Kentucky fans to get a life. Secondary thoughts are the radio hosts acted irresponsibly giving out his personal info. They should pay.
If they truly did that, I hope that they pay big time. No reason for this crap. No matter what you think of a ref, you don't spill it over to their personal life. It's seriously pathetic.
I thought it was going to say...
“Out of 800 vulgar voice messages believed to have been left by Kentucky fans, we could only understand 5 of them.”
“Out of 800 vulgar voice messages believed to have been left by Kentucky fans, we could only understand 5 of them.”
Even though the info is public, if the radio station doesn't publicize it and encourage fans to harass Higgins, I doubt he gets 800 phone calls and all of the grief at his place of work.
I can see those saying throw out the case, but jeez, I bet he gets 10-20 calls tops if the fans aren't given his number and encouraged to harass him. Just my thoughts.
I can see those saying throw out the case, but jeez, I bet he gets 10-20 calls tops if the fans aren't given his number and encouraged to harass him. Just my thoughts.
i hear what you're saying, but if it's not spoon fed to kentuckians over the airwaves, would they have been smart enough to find it online on their own?
Why I'm not sure, bored perhaps by this awful AL baseball game, I just read the entire complaint, and without knowing a huge amount about some of the issues I'd say this:
1. The claim is not for $75,000. That's just the jurisdictional minimum for a diversity of citizenship lawsuit.
2. Higgins has some very smart lawyers drafting his complaint. I'm sure they knew how to plead it in the best way to get past a motion to dismiss.
3. As for the radio guys repeatedly not encouraging folks to do the things they were at the same time celebrating on the air: I'd guess that the amount of cited statements, taken as true at a motion to dismiss, will keep the issue of whether the hosts were sincere at issue for discovery.
4. The most serious issue raised, as I see it, is the couple of places where the radio guys suggest Higgins had it out for Kentucky, or was betting on the game; that is a serious allegation to make on the air, heck they're alleging crimes - there's an NBA ref in the pokey for doing such a thing. While we don't know how much money Higgins makes reffing games, he obviously was well-regarded enough to be doing it in the final four; coupling that with the alleged encouragement to destroy his business and perhaps harass his family - this case ain't going away soon.
And frankly it shouldn't. I personally don't care for sophomoric sports radio in any event, but to do this crap for days - even if innocently under civil law - these chuckleheads deserve to be deposed, under oath, and claim that their intentions were purely entertainment ...
1. The claim is not for $75,000. That's just the jurisdictional minimum for a diversity of citizenship lawsuit.
2. Higgins has some very smart lawyers drafting his complaint. I'm sure they knew how to plead it in the best way to get past a motion to dismiss.
3. As for the radio guys repeatedly not encouraging folks to do the things they were at the same time celebrating on the air: I'd guess that the amount of cited statements, taken as true at a motion to dismiss, will keep the issue of whether the hosts were sincere at issue for discovery.
4. The most serious issue raised, as I see it, is the couple of places where the radio guys suggest Higgins had it out for Kentucky, or was betting on the game; that is a serious allegation to make on the air, heck they're alleging crimes - there's an NBA ref in the pokey for doing such a thing. While we don't know how much money Higgins makes reffing games, he obviously was well-regarded enough to be doing it in the final four; coupling that with the alleged encouragement to destroy his business and perhaps harass his family - this case ain't going away soon.
And frankly it shouldn't. I personally don't care for sophomoric sports radio in any event, but to do this crap for days - even if innocently under civil law - these chuckleheads deserve to be deposed, under oath, and claim that their intentions were purely entertainment ...
While I agree with pretty much all of your post, I gave you a like because you used the word chucklehead.
this case will, in some way, impact every single family in kentucky...
