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If you are in the media, there is a different standard...Unless Gayle, Savannah or Houda want your job.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
He displayed his computer screen (whether it was his personal computer or the school's computer) on a school network intended for teaching classes.

It wasn't "nosy students who gathered". It was students attending an online class.

Not sure why this is so difficult to understand.

Coronavirus. Online classes. Professor teaching a class.
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Common law my friend. It is what a court says it is. There are at least two sides to everything. That is why courtroom has a table on each side of the bench. 2 + 2 = X where X is what do you need it to be. One night in Law school, Professor Hausler asked me a direct yes or no question. I answered correctly with NO. He took my contract book and pitched it to the front of the room saying "you'll have to do much better than that young man if you want to earn a living as an attorney."

I am a big believer in absolutes like right and wrong when it comes to morality and such, but American law is not like that. Morally the Professor is a dirt bag plan and simple but legally, that only effects his fee. I always charged dirt bag extra. I haven't practiced in years but if I was, I would take this dude's case and I bet the student would look like a nosy little brat, self righteous religious fanatic, or radical political zealot in courtroom.

Lap top desk top is personal property. If he is required by U to use it because they failed to provide one that is good for two days worth of argument. The school is certainly at risk for liability to students and even indemnification (contract could be an issue) for the Professor. Interesting point on the students is if they are back at home, parents homeowners insurance might provide coverage and then I guarantee settlement money will be possible. Could be some coverage even if still away at college.

If the Professor is Asian decent as the last name might indicate, then the undertone of racism almost insures some settlement money from the school.

Coronavirus situation is interesting but probably first blush situation for the court and as such fertile ground for creative ideas. I like my chances there.

Long and short, job is probably gone but large money could ease that pain. Then the dude could make donation and get job with Clinton Foundation.

Now if The U or one of the students were my client well, that would be boring but if the money was right then fine.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Grad school or law school?

Another poster has mentioned D. Marvin Jones, a tenured professor at the law school, taught Crim Pro (required 1L course) and a few other courses. I was his Dean's Fellow (teaching assistant) one semester, though the prostitution bust was a few years after I graduated.
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Yep. Same story.
 
Gatorhater said:
Common law my friend. It is what a court says it is. There are at least two sides to everything. That is why courtroom has a table on each side of the bench. 2 + 2 = X where X is what do you need it to be. One night in Law school, Professor Hausler asked me a direct yes or no question. I answered correctly with NO. He took my contract book and pitched it to the front of the room saying "you'll have to do much better than that young man if you want to earn a living as an attorney."

I am a big believer in absolutes like right and wrong when it comes to morality and such, but American law is not like that. Morally the Professor is a dirt bag plan and simple but legally, that only effects his fee. I always charged dirt bag extra. I haven't practiced in years but if I was, I would take this dude's case and I bet the student would look like a nosy little brat, self righteous religious fanatic, or radical political zealot in courtroom.

Lap top desk top is personal property. If he is required by U to use it because they failed to provide one that is good for two days worth of argument. The school is certainly at risk for liability to students and even indemnification (contract could be an issue) for the Professor. Interesting point on the students is if they are back at home, parents homeowners insurance might provide coverage and then I guarantee settlement money will be possible. Could be some coverage even if still away at college.

If the Professor is Asian decent as the last name might indicate, then the undertone of racism almost insures some settlement money from the school.

Coronavirus situation is interesting but probably first blush situation for the court and as such fertile ground for creative ideas. I like my chances there.

Long and short, job is probably gone but large money could ease that pain. Then the dude could make donation and get job with Clinton Foundation.

Now if The U or one of the students were my client well, that would be boring but if the money was right then fine.
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Don't lecture me. I had Hausler for Contracts too.

No need to be mad at me because you incorrectly called the students "nosy" for simply looking at the screen during their online class. It's the functional equivalent of an in-class professor turning on a projector, and forgetting that he left a pornographic slide in the projector.

The students did nothing wrong except to "talk about it", in modern terms. They shared what they saw.

You can bloviate on your legal strategy, but I'm fairly certain that UM has well-established behavioral guidelines for professors (unless they went to Blake James for the same contract template that he used for the Arkansas State game).

It doesn't matter if I feel bad for the professor, he screwed up and he lost his job. Why should I care? I'm just laughing at the situation, as everyone should.
 
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Gatorhater said:
It was his personal computer? I would take it to court then. Sue the frigging nosy students who gathered and shared unauthorized personal data. Creative but that is how new law is born. Since it wasn't school's computer he might have defense against being fired. Company computer and he would probably be dead meat. But unless school prohibited his using personal computer then he has shot against them.

Regardless, the rule is never use your personal computer for company business(had FBI prosecuted HRC everyone would know that). For me, I don't like to do anything for free. My work laptop crashes, I'm just drawing full pay until they fix it or ship me a new one. Mine is vastly better with more current software but they didn't pay for it. Keep your private crap of company computer and company stuff off your private one.
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They can fire him for anything they want. Unless you want to make an argument that **** viewers are a protected class.
 
CaneFan79 said:
https://www.thewrap.com/brit-hume-tweets-screenshot-****-vixen-vinyl-tab-open-browser/

If you are in the media, there is a different standard...Unless Gayle, Savannah or Houda want your job.
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https://nypost.com/2017/06/08/reporter-posts-screen-grab-showing-****-tab-in-his-browser/
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Don't lecture me. I had Hausler for Contracts too.

No need to be mad at me because you incorrectly called the students "nosy" for simply looking at the screen during their online class. It's the functional equivalent of an in-class professor turning on a projector, and forgetting that he left a pornographic slide in the projector.

The students did nothing wrong except to "talk about it", in modern terms. They shared what they saw.

You can bloviate on your legal strategy, but I'm fairly certain that UM has well-established behavioral guidelines for professors (unless they went to Blake James for the same contract template that he used for the Arkansas State game).

It doesn't matter if I feel bad for the professor, he screwed up and he lost his job. Why should I care? I'm just laughing at the situation, as everyone should.
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No one is paying me to win an argument with you and this has nothing to do with Cane football son I will not bother. I could care less about the guy losing his job. Like I said he is dirt bag. I am glad you were bless with Hausler also. Did you think he was the inspiration for the contracts professor in the movie Paper Chase? I always did.

I've engaged you often enough to conclude you love to argue. I like it to but love to make money more. Hausler taught us to be creative and not settle for the obvious. I never had his noble ideals but I did take that one lesson to heart. Sorry you did not see it that way, but even my old partner often questioned whether I even went to law school despite the fact that he sat next to me the entire time. Creativity has cost and rewards, as does seeing the obvious quickly. Hey, just a guess, were you Law Review.
 
Gatorhater said:
Common law my friend. It is what a court says it is. There are at least two sides to everything. That is why courtroom has a table on each side of the bench. 2 + 2 = X where X is what do you need it to be. One night in Law school, Professor Hausler asked me a direct yes or no question. I answered correctly with NO. He took my contract book and pitched it to the front of the room saying "you'll have to do much better than that young man if you want to earn a living as an attorney."

I am a big believer in absolutes like right and wrong when it comes to morality and such, but American law is not like that. Morally the Professor is a dirt bag plan and simple but legally, that only effects his fee. I always charged dirt bag extra. I haven't practiced in years but if I was, I would take this dude's case and I bet the student would look like a nosy little brat, self righteous religious fanatic, or radical political zealot in courtroom.

Lap top desk top is personal property. If he is required by U to use it because they failed to provide one that is good for two days worth of argument. The school is certainly at risk for liability to students and even indemnification (contract could be an issue) for the Professor. Interesting point on the students is if they are back at home, parents homeowners insurance might provide coverage and then I guarantee settlement money will be possible. Could be some coverage even if still away at college.

If the Professor is Asian decent as the last name might indicate, then the undertone of racism almost insures some settlement money from the school.

Coronavirus situation is interesting but probably first blush situation for the court and as such fertile ground for creative ideas. I like my chances there.

Long and short, job is probably gone but large money could ease that pain. Then the dude could make donation and get job with Clinton Foundation.

Now if The U or one of the students were my client well, that would be boring but if the money was right then fine.
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This is my kind of guy. s'all good, man.
 
tcgrad1014 said:
They can fire him for anything they want. Unless you want to make an argument that **** viewers are a protected class.
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Of course they can assuming he doesn't have a contract saying something otherwise and also unless some judge says they were wrong. Interesting thought about **** viewers as protected class. Probably a reach but I like that. I would probably try playing with his teaching business analytics. Maybe he was doing research on the **** industry or something - Maybe for a book. Publishing is big issue for university professors. I don't really care about him being fired but there is nothing to talk about as far as Cane football goes.
 
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That really sucks.....can't you just give him a slap on the wrist, put it in his HR file, and be done with it? Fired not for watching ****, but for being careless enough to leave a link to it on his browser.

Also, the kid who publicized that is an ***.
 
He must have been a real Dumb ***, gotta keep your private life private. I mean he is a professo
Nothing worse than a snitch though, snitches get stitches
 

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supersaiyanshel said:
Had an embarrassing Zoom incident myself. I was on screen share and went to pull up a file with my attendees and of course in my download folder are all of nudes my girlfriend was sending.

Lucked out and we all just laughed about it (and honestly, between their own phones and web browsing, half the people aren't paying attention to what's on their screen during these meetings anyway). I don't see why this Professor should resign or lose his job, especially seeing as there was no actual pornography shown. It was an honest mistake and no laws were broken. Any reasonable leader would file this one under the "Hey, be more careful next time" tab.
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Are you serious?

That would have been a one-way ticket to Palookaville for me.

Maybe 10 years ago I could’ve gotten away with it, but nowadays I’m careful in what I say to my people who I’ve known for years and know what I’m about. It’s a different world.
 
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