Jeff Ream

however as i pointed out a few pages ago, it seems there were things the lawyers could have done that may have made the end result better for the corps but didn't, mostly because they weren't experts in this field

i honestly doubt they are ahead of it

that was the season opener in 01 at the AAA baseball stadium, not finals

They dropped a weapons member trying to hold them

From what I’ve seen and heard the lawsuit only sped up the eventual outcome

And I believe that it really hasn’t called a show

See Cavies 02

so in a few places i've seen online or a few chats i have had with trusted individuals, as i expected, more details seem to be slowly seeping out. now please don't take this next part as victim shaming..i'm not. but it appears the victim filed several other lawsuits of a similar nature and didn't win any of them. i'm no legal expert, and i have no idea where to look, but a quick search on my end found none of them, but i am sure i'm not looking in the right places. i'm not a lawyer, i dont play one on tv, and i don't even watch them on tv. why do i bring that up? did CAE's lawyers use this in their legal maneuvers? Were CAE's lawyers even experts in the field? i'm told attorneys that specialize in these cases were recommended to the board, and the board chose to go the route they did and play the odds. well it's clear that didn't work. was it trust? was it cost? i get it, good legal representation isn't cheap, but if fighting for your existence, i'd think you'd figure out a way to get experts in the field you're dealing with that has a good record. it's apparently no secret it happened with the victim and the abuser. but that it was not a corps sponsored activity has bothered me from day one. Yes, the corps should have dismissed him. in fact, any corps admin at this gathering should have stopped it then. but i still wonder how liable the corps really should be for that? But again, that comes down to who the board had representing them. for $1,000 a month ( a number i've seen floated several places) i can't imagine you're getting Will Gardner or ALicia Florrick ( i have watched that show 2/3 times, hence how i know the names). But...this is a board that allowed Scott to be pushed out, and hired someone who it's publicly known lost in court over fraudulent charity issues. And gave that person more power on paper than Hop had. And how'd that work out? Well....that person fired a certified legend after issues over member safety and finances came out after the season. and the move to Erie...going hand in hand with the sports facility that as has come out over time wasn't always in the best graces of their city. none of my info came from CAE Board members, and i do not claim it to be 100% accurate. i wouldn't trust anything a CAE board member said anyways based on my interactions with 2 of them. But the more that keeps coming out, the more I see that this board...well....didn't do their jobs. who cares however may MBA's or whatever else degrees they had, it seemed to be all about the loyal and faithful and maroon and gold. and as i see more and more seeping out online, in the end....lawsuit or no....it was going to fail anyway. and it seems if any of this is true, the lawsuit showed they couldn't handle it. so while many wat to blame the victim...hell CAE did in their press release....i think in the end, the ultimate failure is on the board, who sat on a ticking time bomb that the lawsuit only got to exploe sooner than later.,

all age would die. plain and simple. and amazingly, these issues only seem to mostly come out of world class corps. and all age has had underage members in them for decades. i'm sure it happened back in the day, but i remember rules being put in place 25 years ago at one corps about how adults and kids interacted

still run the risk at that level, and those corps arent as financially "solid" as several of the world class corps.

Over 18 isn’t a kid though. And every class in dci has members over 18.

Sadly at that time, unless jail was involved people skipped from gig to gig and info wasn’t shared

Spot on

I saw and felt ill. And some the replies made me feel worse

well no longer are they You Eat After

it's a website where companies are reviewed by employees or former employees. the one talking about how he was watching porn in the office sticks out

sadly i know. i know many of those who lived it

while recording for DCAF tonight, an alum was on, and said in this situation it was like a loved one with a terminal disease...we knew in the fall it was coming, we just didn't know when. but when it happened it hurt a lot. i've paraphrased, but i got the spirit of the statement. and for as snarky as we can be at DCAF, this one wasn't super snarky.

yup.

legal bills aint cheap

email

ah. the location says it all.

funny. i asked a board member to confirm the rumors of the sell off....which were rampant...after said board member came on here and invited questions. and they refused to answer my questions unless i gave up where i got the info from. great business practice there. moral and financial bankruptcy

sets new standards was on the WGI sheets for years. i can see why it would be on there...if you're getting 9.8 or above in book, yeah it should be consideration. but not the sole determining factor

interesting. ok. i never said they wouldn't come out, but finances weren't good.