Wes Caves Plane Crash RIP Steve Davis?

[Teatownclown]

We can get quicker news out than the local media/internet sites...and I hope the rumor is wrong that OU great Steve Davis may have been one of four killed today.

http://news.yahoo.com/2-killed-jet-crashes-indiana-neighborhood-005543312.html


It's difficult to find anything at this point.

Some past on the owner.... http://www.shrm.org/LegalIssues/FederalResources/Pages/HistoryHarassment.aspx

[patric]

It's difficult to find anything at this point.

Some past on the owner.... http://www.shrm.org/LegalIssues/FederalResources/Pages/HistoryHarassment.aspx

"The page you have requested is available only to SHRM members. "

[Teatownclown]

Worker with History of Prostitution May Proceed with Sexual Harassment Claim
12/30/2010     By Allen Smith 


An administrative assistant who was convicted for prostitution 14 years before she was hired as an assistant was permitted by a federal district court in Oklahoma on Dec. 27, 2010, to proceed with her claim of sexual harassment against a company executive.
Numerous Alleged Advances

The company executive, Wes Caves, hired Susan Terry in July 2007. Soon after she started work at DigiCut Systems, Caves made it clear that he wanted to have a personal relationship with her. He told her that he took good care of his former assistant, with whom he had an affair, by compensating her well and buying her a Rolex watch and a Lexus. Soon after Terry started work, Caves gave her a $10,000 raise, a credit card for the purchase of gas and additional health insurance for her family at no cost to her.

Caves took Terry out to dinner in September 2007, where he told her he wanted to talk about secrets. Believing that he knew about her criminal history, Terry divulged to Caves that she had been arrested for operating a house of prostitution and had been known as the "Heidi Fleiss of Tulsa." She said she told Caves she was not interested in having an affair with him.

After the dinner, Caves suggested that Terry should move into a different position and ignored her for a week, according to Terry. He then apologized for his behavior and acknowledged she was entitled to work in an environment where she was not being chased around a desk.

In October 2007, Caves allegedly began commenting about Terry's body, frequently sought hugs and often grabbed her.

At a company dinner in November 2007, he allegedly removed his shoes and put his feet on her legs underneath the table, and later he tried to kiss her.

In December 2007, Caves told Terry he was in love with her and told her he wanted to take her shoe shopping. After she rejected his offer to be taken shopping, Caves became offended and ignored her for a period, then apologized. The comments about her body then allegedly resumed in January 2008, in addition to groping.

Terry testified that Caves told her 15 to 20 times during her employment that he wanted to have sex with her. He allegedly made 50 sexually suggestive comments between February to July 2008, comments that she recorded on a digital recorder, including how "hot" he thought she was and his not giving up on chasing her.

In July 2008, Caves gave Terry a $15,000 pay increase and told her she owed him a kiss each morning in exchange for the raise, according to Terry. After more groping, Terry had a phone conversation with her husband where they discussed filing a claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On the same day she filed her EEOC claim, her computer was taken down and all of her e-mails were erased. Terry recorded a conversation between Caves and her where she told him she liked the job and did not want to put it in jeopardy but wanted the advances to stop. Caves replied that he wanted to "unwind" the matter reasonably and didn't want to simply tell her she was fired.

Caves subsequently sent an e-mail to Terry, informing her that the company would no longer purchase gas for her vehicle. In November 2008, there was a companywide layoff and Terry lost her job. Terry filed suit claiming a hostile work environment, retaliation and wrongful discharge in violation of Oklahoma public policy.

Worker's History Raised as Defense

Pointing to Terry's sexual and criminal history, DigiCut contended that her actions in operating a house of prostitution established that she would not have been offended by Caves' conduct as "plaintiff herself engaged in much more sexually inappropriate behavior than that she now claims offends her."

The court disagreed with the contention that because of her history she was unable to demonstrate that she was offended by Caves' conduct. Her conduct happened long before she began working for DigiCut, and the court said it found "no basis for concluding that her illegal conduct at that time has any bearing on her subjective evaluation of Caves' conduct years later." She was "born again" in the intervening years and asserted that she was "not the person she was in her prior life." DigiCut did not maintain that she acted offensively or provocatively at the workplace, the court added, and it rejected DigiCut's motion for summary judgment and allowed her claims to proceed to a jury trial (Terry v. 7700 Enterprises LLC, d/b/a Digicut Systems, C.A. No. 09-CV-529-TCK-PJC (N.D. Okla. 2010)).

Allen Smith, J.D., is SHRM's manager of workplace law content.

Interesting case precedent.

[patric]

The plane was registered to 7700 Enterprises of Montana LLC in Helena, Mont. The company is owned by Wes Caves and does business as DigiCut Systems in Tulsa.  It makes window film and paint overlay for automobiles.

http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Airplane-crashes-into-three-homes-in-Indiana/ERdetTeTiUSvfcPz-Gx2Kw.cspx

[Teatownclown]

The plane was registered to 7700 Enterprises of Montana LLC in Helena, Mont. The company is owned by Wes Caves and does business as DigiCut Systems in Tulsa.  It makes window film and paint overlay for automobiles.

http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Airplane-crashes-into-three-homes-in-Indiana/ERdetTeTiUSvfcPz-Gx2Kw.cspx

The boiler plate AP story....no local journalists anymore.....

[Teatownclown]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20130318_11_0_hrimgs517801

For those of us at OU during the greatest college football ever in the state we will always remember our leader in the huddle. I will never ever forget attending the Orange Bowl against Michigan where Steve won us a National Championship.



This is a very sad day for us Sooners.

I hope the Jim Rogers on board gets better quick...not sure if he is our Cain's owner....

[Conan71]

KRMG confirmed Wes Caves was the second person on the plane killed.  I'm assuming he was the pilot since it's been reported the pilot did not survive.

[rdj]

Spelling I've seen is different.  TW originally had Rodgers.  They've since corrected to Jim Rogers, which is not the surgeon that owns Cain's.

[DTowner]

It's tragic all around.  Not sure why TTC felt the need to dredge up and post dirt on one of the victims.

[Teatownclown]

It's tragic all around.  Not sure why TTC felt the need to dredge up and post dirt on one of the victims.

When this story broke out as a rumor, I started doing some research. The dirt surfaced right a way. Sorry, it's the internets fault. He had no FB page. Patrc appeared to have trouble with the link and I went back to print the site story. I still find it an interesting story. I never knew there was a Tulsa Heidi Fleis...

I think most crashes are pilot error. The local news made no mention of Davis all night until morning no doubt due to sensitivity towards family members.

I'm a news junkie.

[guido911]

Not sure why TTC felt the need to dredge up and post dirt on one of the victims.

Because he is a piece of smile.