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Stanford soccer player wrongful death lawsuit against the school.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 11/25/22 at 7:56 pm
The family of Stanford soccer player Katie Meyer has filed a wrongful death suit against the school. IMO if anyone is at fault it is the parents for a raising a daughter not capable of accepting person responsibility or am I being to harsh?
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Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:01 pm to Ponchy Tiger
Unless there's more to the story (ie. suicidal ideation reported to Stanford coach/medical staff/other employee who then did nothing), it's nonsense
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:02 pm to Ponchy Tiger
Sorry. That letter was not the main reason she killed herself.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:02 pm to Ponchy Tiger
What’s the back story here?
This post was edited on 11/25/22 at 8:03 pm
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:04 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Meyer's family argues that Meyer, who was 22 at the time of her death on Feb. 28, was feeling distressed about facing discipline from the school over an incident six months earlier.
The suit says Meyer spilled coffee on a football player at the school who had allegedly sexually assaulted one of Meyer's teammates.
Meyer, according to the suit, received a formal written notice that charged her with a "violation of the fundamental standard" the day she died.
Gina and Steven Meyer are arguing their daughter had "an acute stress reaction that impulsively led her" to commit suicide. Meyer was being threatened with "removal from the university," and she would not receive her diploma on time.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:09 pm to Bama Bird
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Her parents argue in the lawsuit that the notice came "after hours" while Meyer was "alone in her room without any support or resources."
The letter was supposed to arrive to her college room with what? Her parents there and a team of crisis intervention specialists?
You are in college.
Jesus thats pathetic.
Clearly was going to be incapable of survival in the world if a notice of discipline from a university was enough to end it.
This post was edited on 11/25/22 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:11 pm to Bama Bird
I sincerely feel bad for the family and all close to that young lady but Yeah that lawsuit isn’t gonna hold up
This post was edited on 11/25/22 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:11 pm to Ponchy Tiger
She sounded like a weak minded woman. Parents just want someone else to blame.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:13 pm to Bama Bird
Actions/consequences. Not talking about the suicide. Now if she has been the victim of said assault they likely have a case.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:13 pm to Bama Bird
Stanford would never have kicked her out of school, she was the goalie on the national championship soccer team. And while the letter appears to be the trigger, it seems so unfathomable that she didn’t call her parents or a teammate, friends, an athletic department counselor, to just talk about it. And now the parents are grasping at straws, the school appears to have handled it as if it was any other student who may have committed an honor code kind of infraction. I’d be shocked if the school loses this lawsuit.
Sad story all around. RIP. Suicide is awful.
Sad story all around. RIP. Suicide is awful.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:14 pm to Bama Bird
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Gina and Steven Meyer are arguing their daughter had "an acute stress reaction that impulsively led her" to commit suicide
Sorry if this sounds fricked up, but if this is the case, then her suicide was just a matter of time. Nobody goes through life without having to go through stressful situations.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:15 pm to Jumpinjack
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Actions/consequences
Unless you play football.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:21 pm to PublixSubs
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it seems so unfathomable that she didn’t call her parents or a teammate, friends, an athletic department counselor, to just talk about it.
And I would be shocked if Stanford hasn't provided all students with 24/7 resources or information on who to contact. It has its own page on the student affairs website.
It's a sad story, but I just don't see how Stanford is in the wrong here unless there's more to it than this. It's been a while, but I'm not sure if suicide is ever a foreseeable injury and I'm almost certain it's not foreseeable with the facts we have
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:30 pm to udtiger
I was watching ESPN yesterday and saw it on the crawl. I had never heard of the story and went and read a few articles. I initially thought she was the victim. It appears she made a decision to defend a teammate by pouring coffee on the alleged perp. The letter was common, completely procedural that said she’d have to appear to discuss her actions.
She would have never been kicked off the team, or school. She would have gotten some kind of in school probation.
It’s just mind boggling that she didn’t call her parents, friends, coaches, to say she was distraught over the letter. She could have easily been talked of the ledge.
Her parents obviously can’t come to grips. (Perhaps understandably, they lost their daughter.) But this lawsuit doesn’t seem to be the best way to go about it. Again, sad story.
She would have never been kicked off the team, or school. She would have gotten some kind of in school probation.
It’s just mind boggling that she didn’t call her parents, friends, coaches, to say she was distraught over the letter. She could have easily been talked of the ledge.
Her parents obviously can’t come to grips. (Perhaps understandably, they lost their daughter.) But this lawsuit doesn’t seem to be the best way to go about it. Again, sad story.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:32 pm to PublixSubs
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It’s just mind boggling that she didn’t call her parents, friends, coaches, to say she was distraught over the letter. She could have easily been talked of the ledge.
Her parents obviously can’t come to grips. (Perhaps understandably, they lost their daughter.) But this lawsuit doesn’t seem to be the best way to go about it. Again, sad story.
What's being left unsaid in all of this is questions on why this girl would kill herself over such a thing. I would be interested in knowing more about her home life and how much pressure her parents put on her to succeed in college. Was the thought of even a small black mark on her resume enough to make her throw her entire life away? What would cause this girl, with everything in front of her, to throw her life away over something so trivial?
This post was edited on 11/25/22 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:38 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Was the thought of even a small black mark on her resume enough to make her throw her entire life away?
It easy to look back when you're older and realize how little the things in school actually matter, but to the kids still in school, and especially the kind of kids who attend Stanford, it probably felt like her world was ending.
A lot of kids, especially in Asian countries, have killed themselves over something as small as test scores. There's a lot of pressure to get everything right when you're young and people expect things from you.
Posted on 11/25/22 at 8:56 pm to tiggerthetooth
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What's being left unsaid in all of this is questions on why this girl would kill herself over such a thing.
I mean If you’re a major type a over achiever like a D1 athlete at Stanford likely is, Getting expelled from school might be a pretty big trigger if you have underlying depression
I dont Think this suit has legs, but I wont Fault parents of a child who killed themselves for lashing out
This post was edited on 11/25/22 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 11/25/22 at 10:03 pm to Bama Bird
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easy to look back when you're older and realize how little the things in school actually matter, but to the kids still in school, and especially the kind of kids who attend Stanford, it probably felt like her world was ending.
A lot of kids, especially in Asian countries, have killed themselves over something as small as test scores. There's a lot of pressure to get everything right when you're young and people expect things from you.
Doesn't mean Stanford is in any way liable, though.
Posted on 11/26/22 at 7:43 am to idlewatcher
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Parents just want someone else to blame.
Maybe they should look inward.
Posted on 11/26/22 at 8:02 am to udtiger
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quote:Gina and Steven Meyer Pieces Of shite
Little harsh without having a copy of the suit.. I know what you think about all plaintiffs though…
This post was edited on 11/26/22 at 8:07 am
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