wejo wrote:
Here is more on Logan's lawsuit including his employment contracts with USATF for all interested:
http://www.letsrun.com/2010/logan-1021.phpHis new contract was paying him a flat $500,000 plus $48k for a car, NYC living expenses, and a country club membership.
The definition of termination with cause, which looks pretty standard, is going to be very tough for USATF to meet. I certainly haven't heard any allegations yet that would seem to satisfy any of the conditions for termination with cause.
Note that paragraph 14 includes a "prevailing party" clause, requiring the losing party to pay the attorney fees of the prevailing party. Note also that, in addition to a common-law breach-of-contract claim, Logan is filing a claim under the Indiana wage statute, which almost certainly provides for an award of attorney fees to a prevailing employee, and is apparently based on USATF's failure to pay wages due because termination was without cause. (USATF's offer to pay severance, if conditioned upon waiver of the right to sue, would probably not constitute the kind of unconditional payment generally required under a state wage statute.)
I think that it is highly probably that Logan and his attorneys are going to get paid an awful lot of money. I don't know what USATF's finances are like, or what kind of liability insurance it may have for this, but this has the look of a legal massacre in the making.
I'm really curious about the nature and source of legal advice that USATF has received during this entire mess.