Jackson State Found to Have Violated Privacy of Former Women’s Basketball Coach

By J. William Manuel, of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP   On August 1, 2014, U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate issued an opinion awarding former college basketball coach, Denise Taylor-Travis, $200,000 in damages for the mental distress she suffered as a result of the invasion of her privacy while undergoing the process of her termination from the University. This award followed a December 2013 verdict where a jury had awarded Coach Taylor-Travis $182,000 against JSU for breaching her