Judge Baddour: UNC Chapel Hill's Judge: Bought and Paid For

A recent article appeared in the press:

HILLSBOROUGH -- An Orange County judge on Wednesday declined to order UNC-Chapel Hill to resume paying salary and benefits to physics professor Paul Frampton, who is in an Argentinian prison on drug charges.

Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour denied attorney Barry Nakell’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have required the university to pay Frampton his salary and benefits pending a hearing on a preliminary injunction.

Frampton, the Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UNC, was arrested Jan. 23 in the Buenos Aires airport after two kilograms of cocaine were found in his checked luggage. He says he is innocent and is confident of being exonerated in court.

University officials informed Frampton in February that his salary and benefits would be halted until he was able to resume his duties.

Nakell argued that the university cannot legally do that.

“The university has no legal basis to terminate Professor Frampton’s salary and benefits,” Nakell said. “Even if the university took action to discharge or suspend him, there are detailed procedures that have to be followed.”

Baddour didn’t rule on that argument Wednesday.

He denied Nakell’s motion because, he said, it failed to meet two of the requirements necessary for a temporary restraining order.

First, Baddour said, the complaint failed to demonstrate that Frampton had a likelihood of success on the merits of an “underlying claim,” such as an allegation of breach of contract or some other violation.

Frampton’s complaint included no such underlying claim, and therefore, Baddour said, “the court is unable to find that a likelihood of success on the merits is possible.”

The judge also said the complaint failed to demonstrate that Frampton would suffer “irreparable harm” without a restraining order.

The matter will almost certainly come before the court again. Nakell said he intends to file an amended complaint.

When are people going to realize that Baddour is a lap dog for UNC Chapel Hill. He will rule in their favor EVERYFREAKINTIME on every matter, no matter what. He went there. His father worked there, before they dumped him, the school even named a building after his disgraced father after they booted him (go figure); and he is as good as their judge, bought and paid for!  

Baddour believes that a person sitting in an Argentinian prison, fighting for his very life WITH HIS PAY NOW STOPPED isn't facing irreparable harm? Clearly he is biased for the university.

Watch how he finds a way to dismiss the amended complaint too! He has got to go. Show Baddour the Door!

North Carolina to Change the Flag

Not really, but with the passage of Amendment One, the majority in North Carolina has shown the world that civil rights, left to the whims of an electorate that voted for Jessie Helms time and time again, will consistently be abridged.  Helms, supported by this electorate, called homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches." 

Progressives in this state look at the fancy new buildings going up in Raleigh and the Democratic Convention prep in Charlotte; and we think maybe this state with such a divisive and racist past has been sufficiently diluted with northern, western, or eastern relocation, to counter-balance the old diehards.

With one of highest unemployment stats in the nation, we just spent our money and effort, not to help jumpstart our economy; fund educational programs, or assist many of the homeless people hanging out in downtown Raleigh; but instead to include an "I'm better than you bastards" statute in our constitution.  In our freakin CONSTITUTION.

I hate saying, "I'm not gay" as prelude to a point, because it purports to infer that there is something inherently wrong with that, but for context, I will say, if my state just voted to deny me the same rights that everyone else enjoys, I'd be pretty P.O.ed.

And African Americans....If you voted to deny civil rights to gay couples when not too long ago we were not allowed to vote in this state, you should be ashamed...this same legislative house that threw their bodies down in front of us at polling places and now they are trying to do the same, once again, with these new voter suppression laws cynically targeting potential Democratic voters.  You were used like a slave overseer given better chow to keep the others in line.

Let's take it a little further... Let's add the date "1952" to the flag so people living in 2012 and beyond can get a heads-up as to the mindset of the state.  That way if they have a large company that can provide jobs, or are looking for some nice place to hold a convention, they can look elsewhere.