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Tuesday, July 15, 2003

And now, for our next performance, you see before you the world's smallest violin...Fired coach sues UA for $20 million

Fired University of Alabama football coach Mike Price filed a $20 million lawsuit against the University of Alabama Monday that charged he was wrongfully terminated after allegations arose about his conduct at a golf outing in Pensacola.

The board of trustees and President Robert E. Witt were also named as defendants in the suit.

The suit charges that Price's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the university's refusal to give him notice of the reasons for his firing, failing to give him a hearing to present evidence on his behalf and refusing to allow him to appeal his firing.

The suit asks for $10 million in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages. He is suing for the same amounts in a lawsuit against Sports Illustrated, which published an article about Price's alleged actions at a strip club and hotel in Pensacola that led to his dismissal. [...]

Alabama's firing of Price has caused him "extreme indignities and humiliation, severe emotional distress, mental anguish, loss of property" and caused Price to be "held up to ridicule before his peers," the suit further claims. [...]

Actually, I think it wasn't the firing that led to the ridicule among his peers, but rather messing around with a woman that looked like Joe Namath wearing a blond wig.

Then again, that's just me.

In any event, it is interesting that this wound up in federal court, especially on the grounds that Price was denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Seems a bit of a stretch, and not a particularly good way of winning nor of salvaging his reputation.

Whatever.

posted by Terry at 9:22:00 AM

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