APS black student singled out to play cotton picking game

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Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

When someone settles a civil lawsuit, they voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are often not disclosed (if you’re keeping them confidential and you’re not asking the court to help enforce the settlement agreement), but the fact that you’re dismissing because you settled is disclosed. This would all be a matter of public record, if someone wants to look it up. Again, not the settlement amount, but whether they settled.

Exactly. But the poster above says no civil case was filed, ie, Justin Fairfax did not file a complaint. I have never heard of a pre-filing settlement *for this type of* complaint. I mean, the fact that no complaint war ever filed (if true) convinces me there was no settlement and no money paid. And no one here has linked to a complaint.

That fact that you haven't heard of this doesn't mean it doesn't happen. These types of settlements would not be publicized.

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Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

When someone settles a civil lawsuit, they voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are often not disclosed (if you’re keeping them confidential and you’re not asking the court to help enforce the settlement agreement), but the fact that you’re dismissing because you settled is disclosed. This would all be a matter of public record, if someone wants to look it up. Again, not the settlement amount, but whether they settled.

Exactly. But the poster above says no civil case was filed, ie, Justin Fairfax did not file a complaint. I have never heard of a pre-filing settlement *for this type of* complaint. I mean, the fact that no complaint war ever filed (if true) convinces me there was no settlement and no money paid. And no one here has linked to a complaint.

That fact that you haven't heard of this doesn't mean it doesn't happen. These types of settlements would not be publicized.

Yes, in the employment context cases settle before the complaint is filed all the time. It could be different for government cases, not sure. But I agree with PP that it could be that this was totally dropped when they figured out mom was not a good plaintiff …

[Anonymous]

This whole case should be all the more reason for APS to double down on its new residency verification process and implicate it more often, not only 3-4x throughout a school career.

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Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

When someone settles a civil lawsuit, they voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are often not disclosed (if you’re keeping them confidential and you’re not asking the court to help enforce the settlement agreement), but the fact that you’re dismissing because you settled is disclosed. This would all be a matter of public record, if someone wants to look it up. Again, not the settlement amount, but whether they settled.

Exactly. But the poster above says no civil case was filed, ie, Justin Fairfax did not file a complaint. I have never heard of a pre-filing settlement *for this type of* complaint. I mean, the fact that no complaint war ever filed (if true) convinces me there was no settlement and no money paid. And no one here has linked to a complaint.

That fact that you haven't heard of this doesn't mean it doesn't happen. These types of settlements would not be publicized.

Yes, in the employment context cases settle before the complaint is filed all the time. It could be different for government cases, not sure. But I agree with PP that it could be that this was totally dropped when they figured out mom was not a good plaintiff …

It happens when the facts are egregious and there are colorable claims, plus discovery would do serious damage to the defendant. None of those things are the case here. No way APS took the $10 million demand seriously and even considered it.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t this the type of story ARLNow would ordinarily follow closely? Where is their update???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

When someone settles a civil lawsuit, they voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are often not disclosed (if you’re keeping them confidential and you’re not asking the court to help enforce the settlement agreement), but the fact that you’re dismissing because you settled is disclosed. This would all be a matter of public record, if someone wants to look it up. Again, not the settlement amount, but whether they settled.

Exactly. But the poster above says no civil case was filed, ie, Justin Fairfax did not file a complaint. I have never heard of a pre-filing settlement *for this type of* complaint. I mean, the fact that no complaint war ever filed (if true) convinces me there was no settlement and no money paid. And no one here has linked to a complaint.

That fact that you haven't heard of this doesn't mean it doesn't happen. These types of settlements would not be publicized.

Yes, in the employment context cases settle before the complaint is filed all the time. It could be different for government cases, not sure. But I agree with PP that it could be that this was totally dropped when they figured out mom was not a good plaintiff …

A private employer/company has very different considerations than a government with taxpayer dollars when settling *potential* legal claims. I don’t think the employment context is akin to this scenario. Regardless, it sounds like we both agree, it’s likely Arlington paid nothing.

[Anonymous]

There’s also a big difference between the terms of a settlement agreement being confidential and the existence of a settlement agreement being confidential. I assume it violates some type of transparency law for a public school district to hide the existence of a settlement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

She retracted because she was lying. She admitted she made it up. Amari Allen.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

She retracted because she was lying. She admitted she made it up. Amari Allen.

Well why would she need a settlement attorney?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

She retracted because she was lying. She admitted she made it up. Amari Allen.

Well why would she need a settlement attorney?

Because she got paid. Arlington residents don't seem to believe that APS doesn't want a complaint filed alleging racism. Has the school banned the use of cotton in class activities? That would be a very good indicator she got a big check that needs a settlement attorney to handle.

[Anonymous]

I what are you talking about a “settlement attorney”? I’m a lawyer and that’s not a real thing. You can be an employment lawyer, a civil rights lawyer, an environmental lawyer, a divorce lawyer, etc. These are real lawyer jobs. You, in the other hand, have made up a lawyer job in order to claim a settlement happened when no lawyer would apparently take her claims to a judge via a complaint because they were so stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, more than nine months have passed since the cotton ball incident in question and still no signs of a lawsuit or settlement payment. Will NAACP ever acknowledge that this was a nothing-burger?

She got paid- one who knows

Yep, I called it as soon as the NAACP sent out a press release while 99% of this thread were in fantasy land claiming this lawsuit would go nowhere.

Not a chance they wouldn’t spread their success story all over. Again, if she got paid, she wouldn’t still be driving her POS.

That’s not the way things work in settlements like this. They want to keep the schools reputation from looking any worse when they pay these people off.

Remember when that Black girls hair was cut by those young white supremacists at the school Spence’s wife was working at. In that case, her family got a settlement attorney and she retracted the whole story. Wonder how much they made off that deal?

She retracted because she was lying. She admitted she made it up. Amari Allen.

Well why would she need a settlement attorney?

Because she got paid. Arlington residents don't seem to believe that APS doesn't want a complaint filed alleging racism. Has the school banned the use of cotton in class activities? That would be a very good indicator she got a big check that needs a settlement attorney to handle.

Would it, though? I’m pretty sure APS voluntarily stopped using that game in the classroom after the mom complained and before the demand letter was sent. If they have banned cotton, it would likely be another example of APS twisting itself in knots so as not to risk offending anyone, not a sign that they were forced to make a pay out.

[Anonymous]

There is no possiblity that APS paid a settlement under the table. With no lawsuit filed, that's what you're implying. It's absurd.

[Anonymous]

You don’t need a lawsuit filed to get a settlement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I what are you talking about a “settlement attorney”? I’m a lawyer and that’s not a real thing. You can be an employment lawyer, a civil rights lawyer, an environmental lawyer, a divorce lawyer, etc. These are real lawyer jobs. You, in the other hand, have made up a lawyer job in order to claim a settlement happened when no lawyer would apparently take her claims to a judge via a complaint because they were so stupid.

You don’t sound like an attorney I’d hire. An attorney can specialize in settlements if they like. If you look at the attorney in question, his website specifically advertises what his specialties are..