UCLA Professor Files Lawsuit

[DrPhil]

Black UCLA Professor Files Lawsuit After Being Depicted as Sodomized Gorilla

Originally Posted by Huffington Post

A faculty professor who filed a racial discrimination suit against UCLA, saying that the school ignored racial slights against him over his career, has taken to YouTube to air his grievances.

In a six-minute YouTube video, Dr. Christian Head, an otolaryntologist at the UCLA's medical school, says he was the subject of repeated criticism during an annual event in which residents performed mocking roasts of their professors.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1528297.html

[Kevin]

I'm guessing UCLA will have a different account of events.

If true though, I hope Dr. Head and his attorneys end up seeing a nice paycheck. Nothing like a big judgment to get the attention of a big system like this.

[DrPhil]

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/feature?...les&id=8675861

[Kevin]

That statement is weak as hell. Because Head didn't follow an internal grievance process governed by an institution which had already displayed a strong bias against him, that's reason to cast aspersions?

They would've been better off saying that they can't comment due to privacy laws and left it at that.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by Kevin

That statement is weak as hell. Because Christian didn't follow an internal grievance process governed by an institution which had already displayed a strong bias against him, that's reason to cast aspersions?

They would've been better off saying that they can't comment due to privacy laws and left it at that.

I'm always wary of prepared statements that use terms like "absolutely outrageous" as well - such hollow, non-specific yet inflammatory-sounding rhetoric seems to be out of a playbook, rather than something that addresses a situation in a meaningful manner.

Relying on "the process" is almost never enough - and juries will keep awarding dollars until that lesson is learned.

[DrPhil]

Thanks for weighing in, GC Legal Team.

We shall see how long this takes and what the outcome will be. Both Dr. Head and UCLA have people siding with them. Just based on what I have read and the conservations that my colleagues have had about this, I am leaning toward believing that Dr. Head was wronged and should be given something to rectify this.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Relying on "the process" is almost never enough - and juries will keep awarding dollars until that lesson is learned.

The lesson is that juries are "the process" and that setting up phony committees in order to discourage legitimate lawsuits is about as smart as a bag of hammers and will get you sued.

The only safeguard to these sort of claims coming up is to not hire or promote idiots. At a big formal institution like UCLA, I'm thinking the 'ol Peter Principle is at play here.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

I'm always wary of prepared statements that use terms like "absolutely outrageous" as well - such hollow, non-specific yet inflammatory-sounding rhetoric seems to be out of a playbook, rather than something that addresses a situation in a meaningful manner.

Yep.