In the never-ending saga that is John Fallon, we may have actually come to something that approximates “the end:” from mlive/AANews, “Judge: John Fallon must pay Eastern Michigan University legal fees.” I should have posted this yesterday because I actually first heard this story on Michigan Public Radio when the family and I were driving back into town after a busy week of traveling and looking at monumental things and catching up with old friends. In any event, here’s a long quote from the story:
A Washtenaw County judge has ordered former Eastern Michigan University President John Fallon to pay the school more than $18,000 to cover some of the legal fees associated with his whistleblower lawsuit.
Fallon owed the university $12, 236 for deposition costs and filing fees, and an additional $6,118 in special costs for transcripts and other court-related expenses, Circuit Judge Archie Brown said in a four-page ruling issued earlier this month.
The monetary award does not include attorney fees associated with the 2007 lawsuit, which Brown dismissed last October. He found the university did not fire Fallon because regents feared he may divulge alleged violations of the Open Meetings Act.
“This is perhaps the last chapter in this saga,” said Mark Boonstra, an attorney for Miller Canfield, the firm that represented EMU in the case.
We shall see about that last paragraph, Mr. Boonstra, we shall see. Given how long Fallon has held onto this thing, I somehow am afraid that we have yet to reach the bottom.
I think the next chapter of this endless saga is Fallon suing his attorney for malpractice:-)
Never in history has there been as inept a university president as John A. Fallon III, who failed at every single important task that confronted him in his two years here.
At tomorrow’s Board of Regents meeting, an action will be taken to approve a final settlement with John A. Fallon III: Fallon basically promises to never again sue EMU or its Regents and drops all claims against EMU, and in return EMU agrees to let Fallon go without paying the approximately $18,000 in costs that he’d been found liable for.
So, does this mean that two years after his departure we’ll finally be done with him? Hmmm…..
Yes, this means Fallon is gone gone gone from EMU. The settlement also stipulates that he’ll not again seek employment at EMU. The only strange thing is that EMU did not counter sue the incompetent Fallon for serious moral and fiscal misconduct. Fallon now has a job with an Indiana non profit organization that allegedly helps other non profits better use information technology.