Pruitt threatens to cripple Tennessee Athletics if they don't pay up

[Volbound1700]

My guess is he has a terrible case. He's a cheating POS. That said, once the suit is filed he gets discovery which includes depositions, etc. No one, and I mean no one, wants that. Can you imagine getting to put Fulmer under oath.

One thing that someone mentioned to take notice is that if Pruitt's crap gets exposed, who knows if something comes up from his time at Alabama or Georgia as well. I never thought of it that way. When you go to court, discovery process goes both ways. They would be digging through Pruitt's emails and communications as well. There is a SOL so going through something 5 years old maybe out of scope unless they are trying to show motive for some weird reason.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

One thing that someone mentioned to take notice is that if Pruitt's crap gets exposed, who knows if something comes up from his time at Alabama or Georgia as well. I never thought of it that way. When you go to court, discovery process goes both ways. They would be digging through Pruitt's emails and communications as well. There is a SOL so going through something 5 years old maybe out of scope unless they are trying to show motive for some weird reason.

Hence my saying ... "No one, and I mean no one, wants that." All the other schools are wonder what the hell UT is doing. Settle and leave the bodies buried.

That said, I can't see what he did at Bama or UGA being relevant to what he did at UT. That line of questioning would get shut down quickly, I would think.

 

[Volbound1700]

Hence my saying ... "No one, and I mean no one, wants that." All the other schools are wonder what the hell UT is doing. Settle and leave the bodies buried.

That said, I can't see what he did at Bama or UGA being relevant to what he did at UT. That line of questioning would get shut down quickly, I would think.

Yeah it could be a stretch unless they are trying to prove motive. You get a lot of leeway on motive or character reviews. It would depend on how the judge takes it.

I honestly don't think the threats would be as strongly worded if not for bad PR from Saturday.

 

[CorpRebel]

My guess is he has a terrible case. He's a cheating POS. That said, once the suit is filed he gets discovery which includes depositions, etc. No one, and I mean no one, wants that. Can you imagine getting to put Fulmer under oath.

Dispositions gotta be the most fun a lawyer for the plaintiff can do... well, they can probably be entertaining, anyway!

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

Dispositions gotta be the most fun a lawyer for the plaintiff can do... well, they can probably be entertaining, anyway!

The most exciting things in my career (shows how boring trials really are):

- Destroyed a cardiac physician in a depo. After it was over, the doctor asked me, "which of my colleagues prepped you, because that was brutal." I didn't tell him, but I had been prepped for 3 straight days by a cardiac doc.

- Got a defense verdict representing BellSouth in a $1,000,000 rear end collision case when our truck hit the plaintiff in the rear. You never win those. Most fun trial I ever had. Got to do a "am I holding up 2 fingers or 3" from the back of the courtroom during cross of the plaintiff. She chose wrong ... was blind as a bat and shouldn't have been driving.

- Twice was able to break the seals on depositions - the worst sound you can hear if it's your witness on the stand - and then show 100% contradicting depo testimony and say "were you lying then or are you lying now." Never thought I would get to use that line. Did twice.

- A chiropractor had given a claimant a partial disability based on limited range of motion in his arm. Per the governing documents you had to use a device - a goniometer - to accurately measure range of motion. I asked the chiro how he did it, and then asked to see his instrument, knowing he didn't really do that. He said it was at home. I said we'd wait for him to go and get it. He admitted he didn't have one.

- The best was figuring out the a partner had replaced pages in the partnership agreement to oust his partner, my client, and giving him nothing. The documents looked legit, and they basically signed away a multi-million dollar company to his partner. My client swore he never signed the documents. They were in a 3 hole bound document. We concluded that the relevant pages to the partnership agreement had been replaced. I was able to get a ballistics expert to show that the pages in question had been punched by a different hole punch than the other pages - hole punches, like a gun, leave very distinct microscopic lines on the paper and we could see the pages had been replaced and punched at a different time by a different hole punch. The day we proved that the police were outside and arrested the plaintiff, and the other attorney was in on it and he was disbarred.

- I deposed the entire leadership of the NAACP in the early 90s, including Kweisi Mfume, in a case we took all the way to the SCOTUS and won.

Other than that, it's boring.

 

[Volbound1700]

Yeah both are you are correct.

Lawyers will intentional blast people with Discovery requests as a tactic to just create chaos. @WhosYourDawggy is right. You are better off settling than going through the cost and trouble of the discovery process. This is why most causes settle.

Tennessee must NOT have the money or is just frustrated enough to fight Pruitt. IMO, there is probably emotions tied to this case on both sides. When you get emotions, you get unreasonable. I remember an old Common Law cases from when the USA was the 13 colonies were too rich people sued over who has the rights to an animal that was killed in a hunt.