PUC vs IUN in Federal Court

Recently, I have become familiar with a system called PACER, which is a means of accessing, electronically, court documents associated with the federal courts.  So I decided to do a little compare and contrast.  Just how many Federal lawsuits have been filed against PUC (either the University itself or University administrative individuals) while Howard Cohen has been Chancellor versus the number filed while Bruce Bergland has been Chancellor of IUN.

I'm ecstatically proud to announce that Purdue University Calumet wins hands down with a 10 to 1 score!  And since Bergland came to IUN in 1999 and Cohen came to PUC in 2001 -- Cohen has managed to overtake Bergland in the alleged violation of rights in two less years! Gooooo TEAM Cohen!

All Hoosiers should be very proud of Team Cohen.  Achieving ten lawsuits is a great and difficult achievement.  And, if there were settlements before court filings, the list may even be more impressive.  Remember, this is all at the expense of Hoosier taxpayer monies and student tuition money -- all for the advancement of education.  Go Team Cohen!!!

Now, let me be clear, all I have done is a simple electronic search via the PACER system.  I have not looked either at the Lake County Court docket or any other docket. But if the record at the Federal level is consistent with any record at the county and State level, it sure is a proud day for those of us associated with PUC and its Chancellor Howard Cohen who is successfully most successful in the useful expenditure of tax payer money.

For the curious, here are the cases of which I was able to obtain some form of electronic document (be patient, some of these files may take a bit of time to load):

PUC - Chancellor Cohen (Score = 10)

  1. elgowainy_complaint.pdf

  2. adf_complaint.pdf

  3. defelice_complaint.pdf

  4. hentea_complaint.pdf

  5. jackson_complaint.pdf

  6. knight_complaint.pdf

  7. raoufi_complaint.pdf

  8. simonetta_complaint.pdf

  9. whitesell_complaint.pdf

10. eisenstein_complaint.pdf

IUN - Chancellor Bergland (Score = 1)

1. iun_case_1.pdf

Comments

[C]

The Lake County court information is also available online for free at lakecountyin.org by clicking on the "clerk" tab.

It would be interesting to see what is contained on those files.

[EJA]

Wow, these are very interesting. Some of these court filings are very disturbing (simonetta). It would appear Chancellor Cohen had a direct impact on the outcome of that case, but what impact did he have on the other cases? Is Cohen really responsible for 10 court actions happening during his tenure?