Ohio State vs ESPN: Espn fights motion for mediation

Submitted by SchrodingersCat on
I am waiting for a more informed member (read lawyer) to post, but I wanted to outline the position of espn on the request for mediation. 1. The request was not timely. The parties have been working on this suit for 2 months and only after the schedule was set by the court did ohio request mediation. This is obviously a delay tactic. 2. Ohio has not been working in good faith to fulfill the requirements of the FOIA, even though it believes the documents are public info. Ohio has not responded to requests on ways to make the requests of espn less broad. 3. The application of FERPA to the documents is the major point of conflict and that ruling must be made by the judiciary. Mediation is not helpful and has no chance of removing the conflict. Mgolawyers please correct any mistakes and fill in the omissions! Link: http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Clerk/ecms/resultsbycasenumber.asp?type=3…
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uniqenam

October 3rd, 2011 at 4:25 PM ^

Majorly OT:

Your tagline interests me.  Was Feynman saying that "science is based on the ignorance of so-called experts" or that "science is the belief that the experts are ignorant, and therefore we must prove them wrong/give new ideas"?

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SchrodingersCat

October 3rd, 2011 at 4:38 PM ^

My understanding is that Feynman believed the purpose of science is to discover things that suprise and challenge the experts. I think he was trying to say that science is the only way to overthrow widely held misconceptions, and that believing something just because an expert said it, is non-scientific. In the spirit of science I also believe that only Feynman knows what he meant by that statement and we can all make our own hypothesis regarding its meaning ;-)

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justingoblue

October 3rd, 2011 at 4:57 PM ^

So there are some serious violations in those documents? Hopefully enough to embarrass the hell out of Gee and Smith at the very least. At the most? Willful violator clause, here we come.

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BlueNote

October 3rd, 2011 at 11:34 PM ^

I might add a couple observations: 

1.  The brevity of ESPN's response indicates how ridiculous it finds OSU's quest for mediation.  It's the "I won't even dignify that with a response" response.

2.  I would expect a ruling this week.  The parties are supposed to submit evidence next Tuesday, Oct. 11 if the court denies the request for mediation and allows the case to keep going.  The court will want to give them a few days to prepare their Oct. 11 filings (even though the lawyers are probably preparing their filings anyway).

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