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Duke settles lawsuit by lacrosse players

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JEFFNNC I SO AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENTS!! The Duke LaCrosse players like the other 10,000,000 college students are going to party! Go Duke!!

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February 28, 2013 7:04 p.m.

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no doggypoos.. it means district attorneys will need to be a little bit more careful and NOT put the cart before the horse so to speak...

They reap what they sew... Although I think the settlement may never be known... I bet it wasn't enough.

protestthis
February 28, 2013 7:02 p.m.

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"Kinda nice you can act up, throw a party, drink underage, and then sue everyone for your inappropriate actions." doggypoos

Except that's not what this lawsuit was about at all. It's about how Duke treated the team as if they were guilty of a crime they didn't commit before the evidence showed they were innocent. Sure they partied and drank. There aren't many college students who don't. They didn't deserve to be treated the way they were and obviously Duke agree's at least to some degree, otherwise they would not have settled.

jeffnnc
February 28, 2013 6:53 p.m.

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Kinda nice you can act up, throw a party, drink underage, and then sue everyone for your inappropriate actions.

doggypoos
February 28, 2013 6:30 p.m.

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does that mean the faculty who signed the full page ad before the facts came out will apologize? naaa probably not.. i bet Jackson & sharpton won't say anything either... when is the last time a liberal retracted something after the truth was found out???

alx
February 28, 2013 6:13 p.m.

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How did they loose out on a future...... Is there really a professional Lacrosse league on this planet? Sounds as exciting as a chess or shuffleboard scholarships.

more cowbell
February 28, 2013 5:59 p.m.

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"What happened to the professors who signed a full-page ad condemning the players before any facts were out about Miss Mangnum?" drnc

Here you go. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/12/025283.php

"In 2007, one member of the group — Paula McClain — became head of Duke’s Academic Council, the highest elected position for a faculty member."

jeffnnc
February 28, 2013 4:52 p.m.

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"I'm willing to bet 2/3 of Americans have never even heard of the Duke Lacrosse case." Obamacare rises

I would normally agree with you but this was a huge national story covered on all the major news networks, CNN, Fox News, etc. Everyone was talking about it. Nancy Grace carried on almost daily about it. Jesse Jackson came down and turned this whole thing into a race issue. It's not like this was some little local news story.

jeffnnc
February 28, 2013 4:50 p.m.

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What happened to the professors who signed a full-page ad condemning the players before any facts were out about Miss Mangnum?