Barb Dwyer
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Because, as the saying goes, a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.
Student Sues Professor Over Class Demonstration
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A law professor who elected to demonstrate his lecture on personal injury by pulling a chair out from under a student as she sat down is being sued by the woman to the tune of $5 million.
In a complaint made public on Monday and filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Denise DiFede accused the Prof. Gary Munneke of Pace University and the Pace University School of Law of ''battery'' and "negligence," claiming the fall caused her "to suffer severe pain and mental anguish and severe emotional distress." "It was pretty devastating," DiFede's lawyer, Susan Dennehy, said on Monday.
The unusual class illustration allegedly took place on Aug. 21, 2000 while Munneke and his students were discussing a tort case. A tort is a civil wrong in which one party seeks damages from another for injuries sustained at that party's hands.
DiFede claimed her professor's conduct was "outrageous, shocking and intolerable, exceeding all reasonable bounds of decency," according to the suit.The lawyer said DiFede had back surgery several years ago and had recent back problems before the incident. A spokesman for the law school declined comment, saying it had not yet been served with court papers.
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Kinda makes you wonder what he would have done to demonstrate sexual harassment or assault, doesn't it?
So, what was this man thinking? Will/should she win her case against him?
Student Sues Professor Over Class Demonstration
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A law professor who elected to demonstrate his lecture on personal injury by pulling a chair out from under a student as she sat down is being sued by the woman to the tune of $5 million.
In a complaint made public on Monday and filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Denise DiFede accused the Prof. Gary Munneke of Pace University and the Pace University School of Law of ''battery'' and "negligence," claiming the fall caused her "to suffer severe pain and mental anguish and severe emotional distress." "It was pretty devastating," DiFede's lawyer, Susan Dennehy, said on Monday.
The unusual class illustration allegedly took place on Aug. 21, 2000 while Munneke and his students were discussing a tort case. A tort is a civil wrong in which one party seeks damages from another for injuries sustained at that party's hands.
DiFede claimed her professor's conduct was "outrageous, shocking and intolerable, exceeding all reasonable bounds of decency," according to the suit.The lawyer said DiFede had back surgery several years ago and had recent back problems before the incident. A spokesman for the law school declined comment, saying it had not yet been served with court papers.
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Kinda makes you wonder what he would have done to demonstrate sexual harassment or assault, doesn't it?
So, what was this man thinking? Will/should she win her case against him?
