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Official Michael Irvin* Sues Marriott for $100 Million

rsa coral gables said:
the $100 million is a shock and awe maneuver. damages in defamation cases are difficult, if not impossible, to determine. this will get settled after all the legal filings and publicity posturings.

irving is trying to protect his image and future earnings and is doing some retirement planning. if he get's a $10MM check from Marriott he can blow it on whores and coke retire early.
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Prediction: An public apology and an undisclosed sum. $10M seems quite high, though.

The incident seems limited to a verbal exchange, not a sexual assault or worse. At worst, Michael allegedly said something he perhaps shouldn’t have to the lady, perhaps while under the influence. And perhaps she misconstrued what he may have said.
 
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JHallCanes said:
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****, I was hoping this was going to be settled at the Titanic.
 
RVACane said:
Torts was never in my wheelhouse but on the contracts side I wonder if Marriott’s agreement/relationship with NFL Network as the contracting party for the room, gives them the cover to talk to the renter of Irvin’s room - PRESUMABLY- the network, if they book and pay for these things???

Regardless, I don’t know how people here have such strong opinions about what happened. How does anyone here know one way or another what went on and if it did or didn’t cross a line???
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This is where my line of thinking is. If I recall the story correctly, Michael Irvin told the two dudes they needed to step outside for pics because he could not take photos with them in the hotel. That got me thinking there is something to the relationship between Marriott and the NFL in play here.

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SFbayCane said:
This is where my line of thinking is. If I recall the story correctly, Michael Irvin told the two dudes they needed to step outside for pics because he could not take photos with them in the hotel. That got me thinking there is something to the relationship between Marriott and the NFL in play here.

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Again, I'm not saying that there isn't some sort of a relationship between the Marriott and the NFL, but I'm sure that the relationship does not involve "tell us everything that our employee was doing while he was at your hotel".

Michael may have had the mental wherewithal to realize "I shouldn't be taking selfies in a crowded bar", regardless of what hotel he was in.

At the same time, the Marriott chain should probably know better than to run tattling to ANY corporate customer to report non-vomit inebriation and/or off-color comments when that dirt is based solely on one employee's verbal account with no corroboration.

It's just weird corporate behavior. By any measure.
 
I feel that one of the main sponsors for the NFL Draft is Courtyard which is a Marriott hotel. Either I'm right or drunk.
 
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RVACane said:
Torts was never in my wheelhouse but on the contracts side I wonder if Marriott’s agreement/relationship with NFL Network as the contracting party for the room, gives them the cover to talk to the renter of Irvin’s room - PRESUMABLY- the network, if they book and pay for these things???

Regardless, I don’t know how people here have such strong opinions about what happened. How does anyone here know one way or another what went on and if it did or didn’t cross a line???
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The NFL would have certainly signed a contract for a block of rooms as a "group" through the "group sales" department of the hotel in advance of the announcement of the SB being assigned to Arizona, as agreed to with the city and local hotels as part of the conditions of granting the SB to Phoenix, controlled the rooms, and then assigned each room individually to their group members. As Irvin was a guest in the "group," in the event of an issue, especially an HR issue like an employee lodging a complaint against a member of the group, the primary group contact and yes, payer, would certainly be contacted, without any harm or violation of Irvin's privacy, as agreed to in the terms and conditions all parties accepted when the sales contract was signed.
 
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JD08 said:
The short answer is that this doesn't pass the smell test. There is a piece of information we don't have and one side or the other is not being completely truthful.

If it's either the Marriott employee or the manager, they'll be looking for work after bring bad press to the company.
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Yeah.

And like I said, it's just weird behavior to tattle to whoever put down the corporate credit card to pay for the room. One of these days, a CFO is going to get drunk, crap his bed, and then cancel the corporate arrangement with Marriott when they tell Carol in Accounting the details on the additional room charges...
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Yeah.

And like I said, it's just weird behavior to tattle to whoever put down the corporate credit card to pay for the room. One of these days, a CFO is going to get drunk, crap his bed, and then cancel the corporate arrangement with Marriott when they tell Carol in Accounting the details on the additional room charges...
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TheOriginalCane said:
Yeah.

And like I said, it's just weird behavior to tattle to whoever put down the corporate credit card to pay for the room. One of these days, a CFO is going to get drunk, crap his bed, and then cancel the corporate arrangement with Marriott when they tell Carol in Accounting the details on the additional room charges...
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