Bill Belichick is not settling, the 74-year-old UNC football coach has filed a counter-complaint and demanded a jury trial in a $300,000 negligence lawsuit brought by a painter who says he was injured at Belichick's Nantucket property. The legal fight traces back to June 2024, when a painter named Andrew Jackson allegedly fell while working […] The post Bill Belichick digs in for jury trial over painter's $300,000 injury lawsuit at Nantucket home appeared first on American Almanac .
Bill Belichick is not settling, the 74-year-old UNC football coach has filed a counter-complaint and demanded a jury trial in a $300,000 negligence lawsuit brought by a painter who says he was injured at Belichick's Nantucket property. The legal fight traces back to June 2024, when a painter named Andrew Jackson allegedly fell while working inside Belichick's Fair Street home on Nantucket, a Massachusetts island property valued at roughly $5 million. Jackson claims he severely injured his right ankle after slipping on improperly maintained plastic sheeting that covered floors and furniture during the job. He filed suit in April in Nantucket Superior Court, naming Forty Five Fair Street LLC, a company managed by Belichick, as the defendant…Open
Bill Belichick addressed reporters for the first time since UNC placed his longtime ally and football GM Michael Lombardi on paid administrative leave, offering little clarity as a formal university investigation moves forward. The eight-time Super Bowl champion, now 74 and heading into his second year coaching the Tar Heels, spoke at training camp in […] The post Bill Belichick downplays UNC turmoil as GM Michael Lombardi faces university investigation appeared first on American Almanac .
Bill Belichick addressed reporters for the first time since UNC placed his longtime ally and football GM Michael Lombardi on paid administrative leave, offering little clarity as a formal university investigation moves forward. The eight-time Super Bowl champion, now 74 and heading into his second year coaching the Tar Heels, spoke at training camp in Chapel Hill as the program opened preparations for the upcoming season. His comments were brief and carefully measured, even as the university's chancellor delivered a far blunter assessment of the distraction engulfing the football program. UNC announced July 27 that Lombardi had been placed on paid administrative leave following an internal human resources complaint filed by a former…Open
Image: https://www.nursetogether.com/ via Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped). https://www.nursetogether.com/ North Carolina taxpayers and families deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the COVID disaster.
University still won't clarify whether it ever investigated student-run comedy show, or specify which "portions" of its jawboning statement it's retracting. Student newspaper editors were "browbeaten into submission," FIRE says.
A University of North Carolina program was intended to promote civil discourse and ideological diversity. Some of its early conservative supporters say it is doing the opposite.