Described as the "biggest Facebook mistake ever," a daughter’s status update cost her father an $80,000 legal settlement. Via Yahoo! Shine:
According to the Miami Herald, Patrick Snay, 69, was the headmaster at Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami for several years, but in 2010, the school didn’t renew his contract. Snay sued his former employer for age discrimination and won a settlement of $80,000 in November 2011. The agreement contained a standard confidentiality clause, prohibiting Snay or the school from talking about the case. However, Snay’s daughter, Dana, now at Boston College and a part-time Starbucks barista, couldn’t resist bragging about the case on Facebook. “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver,” she wrote. “Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.”
As a result of the Facebook post, the Third District Court of Appeal tossed out the $80,000 settlement because, according to Judge Linda Ann Wells, “Snay violated the agreement by doing exactly what he had promised not to do...His daughter then did precisely what the confidentiality agreement was designed to prevent.”
Señor Snay could appeal the case to the Florida Supreme Court. But should he?
