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April 30, 2008
Alabama Judge Throws Out $5-Million Verdict Against NCAA
An Alabama judge has dismissed a jury’s $5-million award to a University of Alabama booster, who had prevailed in a defamation lawsuit against the NCAA last November, The Huntsville Times reported today.
Judge William Gordon, of the Montgomery County Circuit Court, ruled that the jury’s verdict was “the product of passion or prejudice.” He also said that an infractions announcement by the NCAA in 2002 — the impetus for the lawsuit — did not meet the standards for constitutional malice.
The booster, Ray Keller, asserted in his lawsuit that the NCAA’s announcement, which used strong language to describe him and two other boosters, represented defamation. In the announcement, the NCAA did not identify Mr. Keller by name, but subsequent news reports did.
A new trial date has not yet been set. —Hurley Goodall
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Finally, a judge in Alabama with some “common sense.”
— Gloria Apr 30, 04:27 PM #
What does it say about Alabama juries, though?
— Adrian Apr 30, 05:22 PM #
They were probably all Auburn fans..
— nancybee Apr 30, 05:59 PM #
The NCAA referred to this man and other boosters as, among other things, “parasites.”
The NCAA makes millions of dollars off amateur athletes and tries to pass itself off as caring about them as students. They are the parasites here. Among other things.
— Midwest Prof Apr 30, 06:39 PM #
Wonder how much it costs to buy a judge these days?
— Joseph F foster Apr 30, 07:14 PM #
Like academic accrediting bodies, the NCAA has a built in conflict of interest. They are the regulating body but they also make millions of dollars off conferences and meetings to discuss the rules they make and enforce. This is a conflict of intersest, through and through.
— Jason May 1, 11:16 AM #