The Jerry Baldwin Saga: 1998-2020

[cajun67]

I think I see a few judges whose employment should be terminated for cause. Cause they are sure stupid. That is the most silly excuse for an excuse I have ever read. And I've had to hang out with lawyers and judges for way too many years. The coach was paid the remainder of his salary to assist him. He did not have to be paid. Soooo, by paying him, he was terminated without cause. Give me a break. And we think the Dems and the Big O are our problems. Nope, it's us. We put them in office and keep them there. We are so stupid.

[basinbear]

We would have been better off if they had. Of course Louie Cook was too smart to work for The Fossil again.

Louie was contacted and when they would not deliver on a couple of things that had to be done he withdrew his name

[douglas]

Ha...so its not just a running joke on here

[basinbear]

He and I were in constant contact...... not gonna say why but since I worked with him on Stokleys staff so you can figure it out.....

[UL_Cajuns]

Rev Baldwin needs to look in the mirror. Maybe he just don't like white people. Rev Baldwin doing all this while he says he is a man of God. What a hypocripe. People get damned to hell for these kind of hypocripe actions. Go to hell Baldwin.

[good2geaux]

This is the clown judge: http://judgejohnguidry.com/

Running for LA supreme court. What a joke.

[Hammer58]

This is the clown judge: http://judgejohnguidry.com/

Running for LA supreme court. What a joke.

"Honorable" Judge Guidry. Honorable? Don't think there is anything honorable in this case or that decision.

[Boomer]

He and I were in constant contact...... not gonna say why but since I worked with him on Stokleys staff so you can figure it out.....

--When things started going good for the my wife's state farm gig I talked to Louie many a time when he was at Crowley H S----he was in the punish room or something like that in the AMs and I was doing my yearbook Josten's deal----Who wouldn't have wanted their insurance with Louie??? Who was the great track/football kid he got from Texas???

[California Cajun]

Friday, February 14, 2014

A football coach fired from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette may be entitled to damages because the school failed to give him notice, an appeals court ruled.

Jerry Lee Baldwin was hired to coach the ULL Ragin' Cajuns in 1999 on a four-year contract. In 2000, the Cajuns went 1-10, defeating only the University of Louisiana at Monroe by three points.

Though the team improved to 3-8 in 2001, Baldwin lost his job two days after the Cajuns' season-ending 31-0 loss to Central Florida.

He sued the school, athletic director Nelson Schexnayder and the Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana system, alleging racial discrimination, breach of contract, tortious interference and infliction of emotional distress.

A judge in East Baton Rouge ruled for Baldwin in 2005, awarding him just more than $2 million in damages, but the Louisiana Court of Appeals reversed the decision in 2007 based on several errors it found.

On remand, Baldwin withdrew his claims against Schexnayder and the court let only Baldwin's racial discrimination claim advance.

Finding that the lower court improperly granted the school summary judgment on the breach of contract claim, the First Circuit Court of Appeal reversed last week.

Evidence shows that the school violated the contract by failing to give Baldwin 30 days' notice of his firing, according to the ruling.

It is also noteworthy that the board paid Baldwin liquidated damages, which included his remaining base salary.

"However, according to the plain language of the contract, the only circumstance for which the board would be liable to Mr. Baldwin for liquidated damages is 'should the [board] terminate the agreement without just cause,'" Judge John Michael Guidry wrote for a three-member panel (brackets and emphasis in original).

"Thus, the board's payment of liquidated damages is an acknowledgement that the contract was 'terminated' without just cause," the judge added.

On remand, the trial court must determine whether Baldwin incurred damages because of the notice breach.

The rest of the story
_ courthousenews.com _

By JEFF D. GORMAN

Boy, what a weasel.

[CajunEXPRESS]

"Honorable" Judge Guidry. Honorable? Don't think there is anything honorable in this case or that decision.

Blame our lawyers for writing a very bad contract. He was fired without cause. Cause is not being a bad coach who cannot win, cause includes things like insubordination, NCAA violations, theft.

Because we fired him without 30 days notice we are in violation of the contract, and paying him liquidated damages simply confirms that. The reality is we wrote a bad contract. My momma always said not to sign anything until you get a lawyer, clearly we got a bad lawyer.

A friend of mine used to run a group of Popeyes Fried Chickens. His advise to me was that he never hired a guy that he did not already have a reason to fire before the applicant set foot on premise. I do not know exactly how that was possible, but when hiring a coach you better expect to fire him, make sure your paperwork will pass very plaintiff happy judges.

If we had cause to fire him he would not have gotten the remainder of his contract. I just do not understand how his damages exceed the value of his contract.

[Hammer58]

Blame our lawyers for writing a very bad contact. He was fired without cause. Cause is not being a bad coach who cannot win, cause includes things like insubordination, NCAA violations, theft.

Because we fired him without 30 days notice we are in violation of the contract, and paying him liquidated damages simply confirms that. The reality is we wrote a bad contract. My momma always said not to sign anything until you get a lawyer, clearly we got a bad lawyer.

A friend of mine used to run a group of Popeyes Fried Chickens. His advise to me was that he never hired a guy that he did not already have a reason to fire before the applicant set foot on premise. I do not know exactly how that was possible, but when hiring a coach you better expect to fire him, make sure your paperwork will pass very plaintiff happy judges.

If we had cause to fire him he would not have gotten the remainder of his contract. I just do not understand how his damages exceed the value of his contract.

But Jerry, he was fired like so many other coaches for failing to win. How many of those coaches fired under those circumstances get 30 days notice? This is just legal technicality bull____. And ultimately, like you, I question what further damages he could claim since he was paid the remainder of his contract.

It sure would be nice to see these judges apply common sense in addition to legal technicalities.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Hammer we do not know, but probably more than we think.

I agree common sense should apply. When you are hired in Louisiana you are an at will employee, and can be fired for no cause. So I hire you as a sales clerk in my store, you blow the lid off sales, but I simply do not like you, and fire you. Except for race, gender, and possible sexual orientation I am in great shape, but if I put you under contract things change a lot.

I think Baldwin really failed to prove he was in anyway hurt professionally any more than any other coach who fails to deliver wins, and the balance of his contract should be his only compensation. I do think though, he won the racial thing, and thus the big pay day.

Face it Hammer our department is NOT run by people who think very much further than the next mean at LaFonda. You are making a big assumption that we did THIS right when we have clear evidence of so many things getting USL'ed.

I am not a Baldwin apologist or supporter in this, but I am not so sure we did it RIGHT legally.