College Students Die In Crash
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Associated Press
Published: Thu, November 29, 2007 - 4:00 pm
today to a former University of Alabama football booster who
claimed the NCAA defamed him when it imposed penalties on the
Crimson Tide in 2002.
The jury awarded Ray Keller $3 million in punitive damages, $1
million for mental anguish, $500,000 for economic loss and $500,000
for damage to reputation.
Ray Keller, a timber dealer, argued that the NCAA slandered and
libeled him during the announcement of penalties by referring to
him and others as "rogue boosters," "parasites" and
"pariahs."
The jury of nine women and three men deliberated an hour
yesterday and about five more today before ruling against the NCAA.
Jurors heard three weeks of testimony.
Keller maintained the sanctioning organization wrongly lumped
him in with other boosters who were accused of making improper
contacts and payments to recruits in the 1990s.
A separate lawsuit filed in Tuscaloosa over the investigation
resulted in a $30 million verdict against a former recruiting
analyst who provided information to the NCAA, but that judgment was
overturned on appeal.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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