This case is burning up the internet. It’s Gulliver Schools Inc. v. Snay from the Third District Court of Appeal in Florida released Feb. 26. It’s a sad tale of employment law, Facebook, and a post too far.
The opinion sets it out. Headmaster of a school does not get his contract renewed. He sues for age discrimination and retaliation. The case settles in mediation with a confidentiality clause, stating that he promises not to directly or indirectly disclose the terms of the agreement, and (here is the killer part) its very “existence.” Well, he testified that his daughter was a student at the school (although she was now college-age), allegedly caught grief from her fellow students because of the suit, and that “because of what happened at Gulliver, she had quite a few psychological scars which forced me to put her into therapy.” So, the plaintiff concluded he had to tell her of the agreement. She concluded that she just had to tell her Facebook friends (many of whom were former Gulliver students) about the settlement.
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