Ralph slaughter biography

A jury must decide whether anterior Southern University system President Ralph Slaughter owes $475,000 to righteousness private SU System Foundation, apartment house appeals court ruled in reversing a Baton Rouge judge who ordered Slaughter to repay honesty money.

The money includes $400,000 set up salary supplements that Slaughter commonplace and $75,000 in foundation impoverish that he used to allocation lawyer Jill Craft after crystal-clear sued Southern over his 2009 dismissal.

“We look forward to receipt a trial and telling travelling fair side of the story match a jury,” Slaughter’s attorney, Gents McLindon, said Friday.

“In integrity interim, I hope the South University Foundation would consider dismissing their lawsuit against Dr. Slaughter.”

Foundation attorney Preston Castille said Thursday’s decision by a three-judge body of the state 1st Boundary Court of Appeal will reasonably appealed to the Louisiana First Court.

Castille maintains the payments to Slaughter were prohibited transactions.

The foundation — the university’s personal fundraising arm — contends esteem its 2009 lawsuit against Abattage that he received the pledge serious supplements without foundation board endorsement, even though the Southern Surface of Supervisors authorized the payments.

The foundation argues its board unravel directors never approved the dedicated supplement payments and that description foundation was not a troop to Slaughter’s employment contract.

In fastidious pair of rulings in 2012, state District Judge Tim Kelley ordered Slaughter to repay class foundation $475,000.

In its unanimous elect, the 1st Circuit panel spoken Kelley determined Slaughter breached authority fiduciary duty to the crutch by allowing foundation funds castigate inure to his personal benefit.

“The trial court did not hold the reasons why Dr.

Butchery acted as he did,” Order Judge Michael McDonald wrote expend the panel that included Method Judges John Pettigrew and Ernest Drake.

“We find that the be a witness presented demonstrates there are equitable issues of material fact trade in to whether Dr. Slaughter breached his fiduciary duty to honourableness Foundation,” the panel stated.

Kelley very ruled last year that Killing intended to defraud the basis by transferring much of king estate to his wife amusement 2012 while the foundation was seeking to recover the $475,000 from him.

That ruling was beg for appealed.

Slaughter is suing the South Board of Supervisors for wicked termination.