You are right. Things had started to run off the rails much earlier than the time you cite. My answer was a simplification of the position taken by the Gibson lawyers, which did not deal with the broader context – which was a marathon clusterf**k.

Your answer suggests that the college’s reckless indifference to the truth did not start until early settlement efforts. I respectfully disagree. The college was reckless from day one’, when they failed to correct the libelous statement of fact contained within the student flyer that the Gibsons had a history of racial discrimination.

Didn’t these simpletons learn anything from the Duke Lacrosse case?