First: Their lawyers did the right thing by WAITING for an opportunity to suspend Tumpkin for violating the personal conduct  (morality) clause of his contract, only when the MPO became public. He then resigned and waived all future claims against the school per his resignation.  Second: If you would have read the ENTIRE, and very correct, comment of mine, I specifically address the due-process adapted in Administrative Courts relating to public-employee contracts. No - you don't just get to fire someone based on an allegation. Third: The regents went way over the heads of internal counsel, and hired a firm to look for a problem where it didn't exist. By punitively sanctioning themselves, in trying to appease some feeble-minded members of the public who refuse to view the reality of the situation, they just offered the case to a vexatious litigant,and did so on a heaping silver platter. Some cases, like those lacking in any temerity, you don't nuisance-settle, you fight and fight hard.

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