UC pepper-spray settlement about $1 million

[Newsjock]

Source: Sacramento Bee

The University of California regents have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million to end a lawsuit over last November's pepper spraying of UC-Davis students, part of a deal that also calls for a personal written apology from Chancellor Linda Katehi to each person hit with the spray.

The details of the settlement, approved in secret earlier this month by the regents, are contained in documents filed in federal court in Sacramento this morning.

The deal, hammered out in mediation sessions after 21 students and former students sued last February, still must be approved by a federal judge.

It calls for each of the 21 plaintiffs to receive $30,000 for a total payout of $630,000. The agreement also transforms the suit into a class action, which will allow others who were hit with pepper spray during the Nov. 18 protest to submit claims for payments of up to $20,000.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/09/pepper-spray-settlement-about-1-million.html

[gopiscrap]

1. should be a lot more than that!

[valerief]

2. Were the campus police who used pepper spray fired? Was the commanding officer who gave

the order to use pepper spray fired?

My god, look at all the pissaway money spent by the university on this at the link.

[MADem]

5. I thought one (Pike) got the boot a long while ago.

Documents released to The Bee by UC officials Tuesday in response to a Public Records Act request filed in July give the most detailed figures yet for costs associated with the incident, including:

-- $320,000 paid to the Munger, Tolles & Olson law firm in San Francisco for work on a systemwide review of how UC campuses should respond to protests.
-- $88,686 paid in salaries and other fees to UC Berkeley officials who worked on that review.
-- $119,714 paid to Marsh Risk and Insurance Services of San Francisco to provide "real time crisis management support for UC Davis."
-- and $445,879 paid to investigators for the Kroll consulting firm that conducted an investigation into the pepper spray incident for an independent panel headed by former state Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso.

Kroll's billing included more than $10,707 in air fare, $3,181 in ground transportation and $8,800 in hotel charges.
Another $230,256 was paid out for an internal affairs investigation into the actions of Lt. John Pike, one of two officers who deployed the pepper spray. Pike ultimately was fired by UC Davis.

Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/2012/09/26/2390172/sacto-911-uc-pepper-spray-settlement.html#storylink=cpy

The total that the uni paid out was closer to two million, when you add in all the investigations, etc.

[valerief]

8. Thanks! I missed the firing line and didn't add up all the pissaway money. nt

[Brother Buzz]

6. Yes and yes

It's kinda gray whether they were fired, encouraged to resigned, or their contract was simply not renewed. The end results; they're gone.

[Pachamama]

3. Should have been a million for each of the students sprayed in face....n/t

And at least give those kids free tuition or pay off their student loan debt....

I still cant believe what those campus police did to those kids.....

[MADem]

4. What do the lawyers get? ACLU gets a chunk of the action, I should hope.

Ahh, here it is:

In addition, the settlement calls for the payment of $250,000 in legal fees and costs to the lawyers who filed the suit.

The settlement fees will be paid out of UC's self-insurance fund.

Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/09/pepper-spray-settlement-about-1-million.html#storylink=cpy

That settlement will pay for almost two years of undergraduate tuition for CA residents, and a bit more than 75% of one years' tuition for an out-of-stater.

[AAO]

7. I'd let them pepper spray me every day for $30.000 a pop. n/t