Ohio Attorney General to college administrators: Discriminate and YOU will be personally liable
Making the law mean something again
Bring a gun to a knife fight: In what is certain to become the most powerful deterrent to leftist bigotry in academia, Ohio attorney general Dave Yost has notified the administrators in his state’s public colleges that “qualified immunity” will not be available to them if they are personally sued for discriminating against any individuals and lose.
Employees found guilty of such practices as employing application essays to discern an applicant’s race “might not be protected by qualified immunity, a doctrine that protects public officials from being personally liable in certain situations,” Yost wrote, according to The Dispatch. “Any attempt to invoke that doctrine would likely be frivolous, and my office may be unable to raise any qualified immunity defense on your employees’ behalf,” Yost wrote.
Up until now, university administrators and professors who lost discrimination cases have invoked qualified immunity, forcing the taxpayer to pay the damages entirely. They were then free to continue the same policies by simply rewording what they were doing. It cost them nothing, especially as the university itself supported them by paying the bill and not firing them for misbehavior and their illegal actions.
Yost is making it clear that these administrators won’t have that easy out should they violate the recent Supreme Court decision by continuing to hire faculty and admit students based on racial quotas. They will be held personally liable for any damages won in any lawsuit.
Knowing the arrogance of leftist college administrators and faculty, we should not be surprised if they ignore this warning and continue their bigoted discriminatory policies. We will then have the great pleasure of watching them squirm when they find their own salaries and bank savings garnered to pay the court costs and damages.
In fact, the sooner someone in Ohio moves to sue these academic bigots, the better. Though other states have not yet eliminated qualified immunity as a defense, just seeing one college administrator in Ohio suffer personally for his or her bad behavior will work wonders in striking fear into college administrators nationwide. They will suddenly realize that the law means something, and that they are no longer free to ignore it.
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Making the law mean something again
Bring a gun to a knife fight: In what is certain to become the most powerful deterrent to leftist bigotry in academia, Ohio attorney general Dave Yost has notified the administrators in his state’s public colleges that “qualified immunity” will not be available to them if they are personally sued for discriminating against any individuals and lose.
Employees found guilty of such practices as employing application essays to discern an applicant’s race “might not be protected by qualified immunity, a doctrine that protects public officials from being personally liable in certain situations,” Yost wrote, according to The Dispatch. “Any attempt to invoke that doctrine would likely be frivolous, and my office may be unable to raise any qualified immunity defense on your employees’ behalf,” Yost wrote.
Up until now, university administrators and professors who lost discrimination cases have invoked qualified immunity, forcing the taxpayer to pay the damages entirely. They were then free to continue the same policies by simply rewording what they were doing. It cost them nothing, especially as the university itself supported them by paying the bill and not firing them for misbehavior and their illegal actions.
Yost is making it clear that these administrators won’t have that easy out should they violate the recent Supreme Court decision by continuing to hire faculty and admit students based on racial quotas. They will be held personally liable for any damages won in any lawsuit.
Knowing the arrogance of leftist college administrators and faculty, we should not be surprised if they ignore this warning and continue their bigoted discriminatory policies. We will then have the great pleasure of watching them squirm when they find their own salaries and bank savings garnered to pay the court costs and damages.
In fact, the sooner someone in Ohio moves to sue these academic bigots, the better. Though other states have not yet eliminated qualified immunity as a defense, just seeing one college administrator in Ohio suffer personally for his or her bad behavior will work wonders in striking fear into college administrators nationwide. They will suddenly realize that the law means something, and that they are no longer free to ignore it.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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I fully expect the rich activists, and the various fundraising companies like GiveSendGo to jump in to cover costs and penalties for the first dozen or so examples. Even if they have to violate their own ToS to do so.
David Eastman, you’re probably thinking of GoFundMe. That is the leftist woke company.. GiveSendGo is the normal company that will not cancel fundraising campaigns for political reasons. Even if the left steps in, at least the taxpayers are not paying for the defense and penalties..
LLCs and having AI be a cyber executive might be two dodges.
Remember, Republicans have–for years–made it hard for the little guy to sue…trotted out loser pays, etc.
Don’t think that hasn’t been copied
Oh joy! Why not just make it easier to fire them? The answer always is: lawyers. So don’t get your hopes up, mokes. Hope is a harsh mistress.
I don’t care if some outside group pays their penalties. At least they are being paid and the offensive person is now labeled a racist on their legal record.
It will be public knowledge that they lost in court for setting racial standards. No other university or company will hire them for fear of following them down the looser hole.
LLC’s and cyber executives will not be a dodge. the next guy up the hiring chain will take the hit.
And what university will use an LLC for additions? The university will then be held accountable because they approved of the admissions structure of that LLC.
Ohio just passed a better voter ID system also.
https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_ID_in_Ohio
Is there a website that has a list of companies (links) that form the alternative economy? Companies that are non political and will not alter services due to political causes. I don’t want woke, but I also don’t want an organization that preaches to me about their ideology. In fact, I don’t even want to select companies based upon how they align with what I believe, but if I don’t know what political stance they take, they will most likely align with my beliefs… You mind your business and I’ll mind mine,
Jeff, treating the “little guy” as a protected class has caused a lot of problems … not the least of which is feeding a supply-chin of “victims” to the plaintiffs’ bar, and the grievance-grifters known as “activists”/“community organizers”.
Equal protection under the law is the answer, and this declaration by the OH AG is a step in that direction.
Gary H: See this website:
https://1792exchange.com/spotlightreports/
To Eliminate the Woke COMPANIES. . .
Begin with :
https://www.hrc.org/resources/best-places-to-work-for-lgbtq-equality-2022
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— Executive Summary—
IN THIS 20TH EDITION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index, a record-breaking 842 businesses met all the criteria to earn a 100 percent rating and the designation of being a 2022 “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality.”
“Since 2002, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has published the CEI report based largely on the annual CEI survey administered to hundreds of major global employers. The first Index in 2002 had just 13 companies with 100 percent scores, in comparison to the 840+ companies that, as of this edition, earned a perfect score.”
[Point another 1,271 Companies earned the rating of “APPROVED “.]
[Note — TARGET & AB Budweiser InBev have been suspend from the List, not Woke Enough when the Haggis Hit The 🔥]
Related: THE TRUE COST OF GOVERNMENT
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It’s all related.
Mr Z. Thanks so much.