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After losing his appeal with the Federal Appeals Court Friday, a former University of Wisconsin administrator is moving on to other legal action.
Dr. Paul Barrows, former UW vice chancellor, lost his case in the Federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after arguing UW violated his 14th Amendment right to due process by placing him on unpaid administrative leave after sexual harassment allegations in 2004.
According to Barrows' attorney, Lester Pines, they will move forward with a similar case against a former dean of students at UW now that the appeal is complete.
"The lawsuit against Luoluo Hong is pending in state court," Pines said. "It stayed until the 7th Court made its decision."
Pines said it would take a "little while" for him and Barrows to organize the next phase of their lawsuits.
In addition to the case against Hong, Pines said they would also move forward with a case filed against UW where Chancellor John Wiley allegedly promised to match a job offer Barrows received from a university in New York in April 2005.
"[We'll continue] with the case before the claims board regarding Dr. Barrows turning down the position at Hunter College in return for a job at UW for $150,000," Pines added.
Although Barrows decided to stay at UW, he was reportedly paid less than half the promised amount — about $73,000.
Barrows, who joined the university in 1989, decided on early retirement in November 2006 when he told The Badger Herald he no longer wanted to be on "a team that's rotten at the core."
Since the initial due process complaint was denied at the state level, Pines said they were not surprised by the decision Friday, but are hopeful for the upcoming two cases.
"These are still viable claims of course — we've known since district court that the federal claim might not be viable," Pines said. "We were hopeful that they would reverse it, but the case already had been dismissed, so this is not that big of a blow."
Amy Toburen of UW Communications said the decision Friday was a continuation of the three-year process with the former vice chancellor.
"I think this is just another step in this particular case," Toburen said. "We are glad that the facts were understood, and the court agreed with our case."
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“Pines said it would take a "little while" for him and Barrows to organize the next phase of their lawsuits.”
What is Lester Pines trying to hide? He loves defending state employees, including unionized MTI low-life. I wonder how his daughter got a job as a clerk to a Minn. supreme court judge…
is Luoluo finally going to have to defend her actions in this whole sordid mess?
why won’t this guy just go away? Luoluo was totally in the right when she told this guy to shove off.
Please. Luoluo never told anybody to “shove off.” She cowardly sent memos containing infammatory racial stereotypes about Barrows to local TV and then left for Arizona as the bodies burned. I read those memos. By the way, they are filled with much more incendiary racial and sexual stereotypes than anything the law prof is accused of saying recently. Luoluo also left at least two poor women behind to be shredded in the universities inquest (the one that cleared Barrows). Nice.
Personally, I hope Barrows wins a judgment. I don’t think there is much institutional racism here, but when you compare how Barrows was treated compared to the folks in the recent med school scandals, - you have to wonder.
Yes. The real problem here has been John Wiley and Patrick Farrell. The UW ASAC cleared Barrows of the charges, so I think Barrows is entitled to the $150000 consulting position, back pay, legal costs, and punitive damages. Wiley and Farrell should be replaced.
I still say the real problem is Luoluo. Without the memos and the pressure she put on Wiley to keep Barrows off campus, Paul would still be on campus in job worthy of his talents.
Luoluo is secondary. The ASAC cleared Barrows, so it is simply absurd that Farrell and Wiley continued to keep him in the backup job and put another fraudulent letter in his file. Barrows should file a lawsuit against Farrell.
I agree. Farrell and Wiley have been wrong about everything, but especially the Barrows case. Replace them.
Definitely true: John Wiley has been the worst chancellor UW-Madison has ever had, and the Barrows case proves it.
Wiley has made many other major mistakes besides the Barrows affair. This nonsense about the marching band, attacking the legislature, the Cohen case, the Coronado case, the Goodwin case, and the Kevin Barrett debacle. Collectively, these scandals have hurt UW-Madison’s reputation badly, both in Wisconsin and around the nation. The problem is John Wiley. He has no leadership skills and was a terrible choice for the chancellor position. He should be replaced as soon as possible, but I wonder if anybody can handle the mess he has made here.
Wiley should be replaced, and Farrell too. It will be a major challenge for their successors to try and clean up the mess at UW-Madison. Things have never been this bad. Morale is awful, and rumors of even bigger scandals coming out at the Barrows trial keep swirling. However, if something isn’t done soon, I believe UW-Madison’s reputation will never recover.
Very true. It has been very sad and depressing to watch the Barrows/Hong dispute turn into this massive public embarrassment for UW-Madison. I cannot understand how John Wiley could have ever let this happen. He (Wiley) has really failed UW, Barrows, and the taxpayers of Wisconsin. Nothing like this has ever happened before at UW, and you have to wonder why the Regents have done so little about this building catastrophe at Bascom.
That’s easy to explain. David Walsh and Kevin Reilly are total boobs. They have no leadership skills either, and Reilly actually reprimanded Barrows! Replace Wiley, Farrell, Walsh, And Reilly immediately.
Right: a major housecleaning is needed at UW, but will the regents do it? What are they waiting for?
“I wonder how his daughter got a job as a clerk to a Minn. supreme court judge…”
Graduating near the top of her class at the University of Minnesota? Just a guess. Moron.