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QuizLaw Presents
This afternoon, QuizLaw Proudly Presents: A Kentucky Fried Sex Scandal, starring the former dean of John Marshall School of Law, Robert Johnston, as Colonel Sanders and Virginia Smith as the plaintiff.
This little feature begins way back in 1983, when Colonel Sanders began dating one of his law students, Mrs. Smith, despite the fact that the dean was already married. At first, all went well: Sanders and his mistress allegedly did the ole’ doubleback in the Colonel’s car, his office, and even in his home. Throughout the entire affair, the Colonel — like any married man carrying on an affair with someone half his age — repeatedly promised to marry his mistress. But last year, when his wife kicked the bucket (excuse the pun), the Colonel decided to marry the associate dean of the law school instead of Smith (imagine the gossip in the teacher’s lounge).
Smith, now the woman scorned, brought a lawsuit with all sorts of salacious accusations, including allegations that the Colonel engaged in a little “striking, slapping, shoving, and twisting Smith’s face, limbs and body.” (Now that’s not nice!) And, indeed, there was evidence to back up these claims, specifically that the Colonel showed up to school one day sporting all sorts of bruises. The Colonel did not deny that there was at least one fracas, but he claims that it was he that received a round of punches after he informed Smith that he’d decided to marry someone else. As the Colonel’s attorney stated, “At the time he informed her, she clearly did not take the news well.”
Smith is claiming unspecified damages for “medically diagnosable and significant psychological and physical injuries and damages” that “required her to seek medical, dental and professional psychological treatment.”
And that concludes our program for today.
