This was inevitable and hopefully will bring resolution to this matter. Her claim is based off the fact that the school did nothing after her complaints. That Tucker remained employed well after the investigation was initiated.
From a legal perspective, an investigation does not warrant immediate termination in cases like this. An investigation is just that, an investigation and the person being investigated has the benefit of the doubt because not all claims turn out to be true. Many don’t and are Hail Mary’s thrown by low performers about to be let go, jilted lovers, or by straight up manipulative sociopaths who spend their waking hours trying to screw others over for their own gain. That is a lot of false claims to sift through to get to the real claims.
In this case, sexual harassment accusers can request to be removed from the workplace are of the accused, for understandable reasons.
In this case, Tracy was not an employee of MSU, and was 3,000 miles away. So what would have been the point of removing him from the workplace. Particularly when the claim was made by a contractor whose contract was not continued by the school. Yet she kept up cross country conversations with him for 30 minutes or so a call. Hard to prove harm here.
Next, she argues that it wasn’t consensual but the length and number of calls infers otherwise, particularly when she accepted an expensive set of sneakers and $200 through Venmo from him. As an expert in the field, she should have conducted herself differently.
Finally, she is trying to get the court of public opinion in her favor but being a white woman making a claim against a black man is going to make that hard to do. Tucker needs the activist to come out and protest the racist attack being made on him by a white woman. She refuses to disclose key text messages that would show the true nature of the relationship between them, but she refuses to disclose and the person is dead and cannot be cross examined - which is why the messages will be admitted by the court.
The wild card here is that if MSU is effective in painting Tracy as a jilted lover with a struggling business and one of her biggest payers cutting ties with her when she thought the $20,000 a pop was going to be a continuing thing. If MSU effectively proves this, and it seems very likely, that would mean Tucker was terminated without cause. The school would say getting into the entanglement was reason enough that won’t be enough. Since that would mean the school could fire anyone based solely on an untrue allegation.
So winning against Tracy increases the loss to Tucker. Which makes me think that the school cuts her a $3,000,000 check one for her attorney and $2,000,00 for her just to walk away, acknowledging something wrong happened and reducing any settlement with Tucker. It is going to be complicated.
From a legal perspective, an investigation does not warrant immediate termination in cases like this. An investigation is just that, an investigation and the person being investigated has the benefit of the doubt because not all claims turn out to be true. Many don’t and are Hail Mary’s thrown by low performers about to be let go, jilted lovers, or by straight up manipulative sociopaths who spend their waking hours trying to screw others over for their own gain. That is a lot of false claims to sift through to get to the real claims.
In this case, sexual harassment accusers can request to be removed from the workplace are of the accused, for understandable reasons.
In this case, Tracy was not an employee of MSU, and was 3,000 miles away. So what would have been the point of removing him from the workplace. Particularly when the claim was made by a contractor whose contract was not continued by the school. Yet she kept up cross country conversations with him for 30 minutes or so a call. Hard to prove harm here.
Next, she argues that it wasn’t consensual but the length and number of calls infers otherwise, particularly when she accepted an expensive set of sneakers and $200 through Venmo from him. As an expert in the field, she should have conducted herself differently.
Finally, she is trying to get the court of public opinion in her favor but being a white woman making a claim against a black man is going to make that hard to do. Tucker needs the activist to come out and protest the racist attack being made on him by a white woman. She refuses to disclose key text messages that would show the true nature of the relationship between them, but she refuses to disclose and the person is dead and cannot be cross examined - which is why the messages will be admitted by the court.
The wild card here is that if MSU is effective in painting Tracy as a jilted lover with a struggling business and one of her biggest payers cutting ties with her when she thought the $20,000 a pop was going to be a continuing thing. If MSU effectively proves this, and it seems very likely, that would mean Tucker was terminated without cause. The school would say getting into the entanglement was reason enough that won’t be enough. Since that would mean the school could fire anyone based solely on an untrue allegation.
So winning against Tracy increases the loss to Tucker. Which makes me think that the school cuts her a $3,000,000 check one for her attorney and $2,000,00 for her just to walk away, acknowledging something wrong happened and reducing any settlement with Tucker. It is going to be complicated.
