Sean Payton agrees to multi-year contract with Saints

[JDaveG]

(01-17-2013 07:36 PM)AsylumGuido Wrote:  I expect they will take the suit to a higher court. Sorry, but it isn't over.

Your problem is you have bought into the web of half-truths you've spun over the past year. Probably the biggest half truth being that Vilma is in this for "vindication."

Let's assume that's true. Let's assume he knows he can't win the lawsuit, but intends to bring it just to "get the truth out." There is a huge problem with that scenario that should be obvious to anyone who doesn't have an agenda (you know -- anyone who didn't think Judge Berrigan was going to rule for Vilma just because a couple of reporters quoted her, likely out of context, as saying she wanted to). The problem is, the federal court system exists to resolve disputes, not to let people tell their story. If he wants to tell his story, he can go on Oprah. In court, he has to have a justiciable controversy that he can actually win, or they throw it out.

Of course, at the beginning of this, those of us with legal training were saying it's unlikely he gets past judgment on the pleadings. Do you find it interesting at all, Guido, that Vilma wasn't even allowed to complete discovery in this case? That the judge threw it out before he was even allowed to move forward with asking all the questions you think he should have been allowed to ask? Have you considered why she might do that? Have you considered what that might say about his chances of success on appeal? To a notoriously business/defense friendly 5th Circuit Court of Appeals?