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Academic side to pay legal fees for another athletic incident?

Jack Moran has the story in the RG:

A state trooper who was ejected last fall from a college football game at Autzen Stadium, then suspended from active duty and banned from University of Oregon property, is now threatening to sue the UO and the city of Eugene for mistreatment. …

Eugene and UO police typically oust dozens of rowdy spectators from the stadium during football games, and the majority of those ejections involve intoxicated people. In Boyd’s case, Eugene police officer Jed McGuire wrote in a report documenting the incident that the off-duty trooper smelled of alcohol and admitted to having consumed “a few” beers prior to being handcuffed by McGuire and two other officers.

One of those officers, Matthew Grose, wrote in a separate report that Boyd wore a T-shirt at the time that read “Beer is the answer. Now what was the question?”

Speaking of rhetorical questions, I wonder if Randy Geller will give the HLGR law firm of famed tobacco company lawyers Sharon Rudnick and Dave Frohnmayer a piece of the legal action – paid for out of the academic budget, presumably. Boyd’s lawyer is Sean Riddell, the former AAG who went after Mark Long, the son of an HLGR partner, during Cylviagate. This could be an expensive grudge re-match for UO to step into.

One Comment

  1. Heart trouble 02/05/2014

    Randy will blow a gasket if he has to settle this and Riddell gets a cut.

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