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Capella Stella Fey Epling,
Can’t write a brief for anything!
She perjures, she lies,
And never complies,
Oh, what a knack for bungling!
Capella Stella Fey Epling,
Who, with L’Orange, was shamming!
Threatened with sanctions,
Accommodations?
But then their own work was damning!
Capella Stella Fey Epling,
Will do whatever they’re bidding!
Blames her computer
It can’t get much ruder!
We’re not too concerned with her pleading!
Capella Stella Fey Epling,
With Chris L’Orange explaining,
I like toxic wastes
But this is not in our fates
To constantly have to keep feigning!
Capella Stella Fey Epling,
She tries ever so hard at faking,
If it’s only a font
Then what does the court want?
Just how many laws is she breaking?
Capella Stella Fey Epling,
We wonder what next she’ll be writing?
She ignores local rules,
Oh we hear her small mewls.
Just how much will the judge be smiting?
We hope you've enjoyed our attempt at poetry. As noted previously, we believe that Stella Fey Epling, one of Capella University's defense attorneys, has recently committed perjury. Even more disturbing is that, once again, Capella's Dream Team (consisting of Stella Fey Epling and Christian L'Orange) is believed to have committed more violations of the court's rules (even though an initial hearing hasn't yet been held). They've already been threatened with sanctions once for failing to submit documents required by the court. This time, Capella's Dream Team submitted a document that was not only filled with blatant lies (some of which have already been noted on this blog) but once again, failed to abide by the court's local rules. As a result, Stella Fey Epling has just submitted an "apology" to the court. We can only hope that the judge levies the harshest sanctions permitted by law against Epling, L'Orange, and any other attorneys from Drinker Biddle (the law firm representing Capella University) that is participating in this charade.
According to court materials just published on the Internet a few moments ago, the Plaintiff who filed the discrimination lawsuit against Capella University, has now filed a document with the court alleging the “defendant’s noncompliance with local [court] rules.” As has already been noted, Capella’s defense attorney’s were threatened, a few weeks ago, with sanctions for their failure to submit required documents to the court. That story currently appears at:
We have also just reported that one of their attorneys, Stella Fey Epling, appears to have committed perjury – now this?! We wonder what it could be?
In the event that Capella’s attorneys have violated the courts rules again, we can only hope that the judge will subject Capella University to the harshest sanctions possible – after all, they’re only had to submit two sets of documents to the court and an initial hearing hasn’t even been held!
We’ll certainly keep readers apprised of this breaking story!
It appears as if Stella Fey Epling, an attorney with the law firm of Drinker Biddle that is representing Capella University in the current discrimination lawsuit that has been filed against them, has committed an act of perjury!
To date, Epling and her partner in the case, H. Christian L’Orange, have filed just two sets of documents with the United States District Court, California Central District, pertaining to the lawsuit. Because the first set of documents failed to comply with the local rules of the court, Epling and L’Orange were threatened with sanctions - now, we believe, Epling has intentionally lied to the court!
Specifically, Epling stated in a personal declaration she made to the court on October 31, 2005, that:
"I am familiar with Plaintiff’s websites [sic] – www.capellauniversity.org and www.capellanazis.com. In or around July 2005 I first visited those sites and reviewed disparaging statements about Capella. Shortly thereafter, my access and the access of all computers, nationwide, at my law firm was revoked. After attaching documents to the counterclaim which were printed from another remote computer I used to access the sites, I was no longer able to access the sites from that IP address. I have observed that plaintiff appears to update his websites [sic] continuously.
"I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 31st day of October 2005, in San Francisco, California."
The fact of the matter is that one of those sites, http://www.capellanazis.com did not, and could not have existed until on or after October 8, 2005 when the domain was purchased. Epling, on the other hand, states that she first visited it in or around July 2005. Of course, that would have been impossible for her to do.
Additional information about this breaking story may be found at: Stella Fey Epling: Perjurer? Hypocrite? Cry Baby?
We believe he has! In fact, in a declaration to the United States District Court, California Central District, dated October 31, 2005, regarding the current discrimination lawsuit against Capella University, Michael Offerman specifically stated that,
“I do not participate, nor have I ever [sic] in discrimination. I have never been involved in any lawsuit regarding a faculty member or instructional staff.”
The fact is, Offerman was a key figure in a lawsuit that went before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Markel v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. While details of that case may be found on the Internet at FindLaw.com, we would like to note the following excerpt:
“. . .Markel's supervisors were Michael Offerman, the Dean and Director of UWLI, and Philip LaForge, Marketing Manager.
“In April 1999, Offerman and LaForge were informed that Markel, Richard Schafer, and Jeffery Sledge were involved with a competing company, called Learning W@rks, and were trying to recruit UWLI employees to staff it. A meeting occurred at a restaurant among the employees, supposedly to recruit John Ashley and discuss business strategy. Offerman, together with LaForge and Holly Breitkreutz, Associate Dean & Director of UWLI, went to the restaurant and saw four employees there, seated together. After the meeting, when Ashley returned to the office, Offerman confronted him. Ashley told Offerman the business plan and gave him some documents from the new business.
“It seems that the employees intended to take advantage of Schafer's connection, through his wife, to an existing enterprise called Leadership Online, which performed services similar to that of UWLI. They also planned to use Sledge's involvement with a nonprofit company called Learning Works Group. Learning Works Group, because of its connections to former University regents, appeared to be affiliated with the University. Apparently, Leadership Online was supposed to take over Learning Works Group and use some of its' name recognition and inferred associations with the University to attract business.
“In May 1999, armed with this information, Offerman and Breitkreutz confronted Markel. They asked Markel about her involvement with Learning W@rks, and gave her written notice of the charges of dismissal and a chance to respond. Offerman told her that in order to avoid dismissal she needed to either write out and sign a statement outlining what she knew about the new business or resign. Markel refused to sign a statement and said she would need to consult with an attorney before answering Offerman's questions. The meeting ended, and Markel was forced to cease work immediately and return all UWLI property.”
While the case was eventually dismissed because Markel's contract had expired, we believe that the facts speak for themselves. For Offerman to claim that he has “never been involved in any lawsuit regarding a faculty member or instructional staff” is an outright lie.
Somehow, it doesn't surprise us - the blogosphere has been a relatively quiet place to find information regarding Capella University but, once we put up the Capella Lawsuit Blog, Capella's propaganda machine has suddenly started to flood the 'net with their drivel. Of course, that was to be expected - Capella University doesn't want the world to know how they really treat their students so they flood the 'net with their incessant drivel.
Interestingly, Capella University "honored" "National Disabilities Month" with a news release about how they "work" with students with disabilities - that, of course, is utterly obscene as their Disabilities Coordinator, Lisa Bromenshenkel, is also one of the key figures in the current lawsuit against Capella University for their blatant retaliation against a student who was denied accommodations.
We strongly urge all prospective applicants to Capella University to do your homework before enrolling.
Kurt Linberg, the dean of Capella’s School of Technology gets blasted for changing the topic on a blog managed by the National Center on Low-Incidence Disabilities at the University of Northern Colorado and for his unfounded attack on a student. As has been so typical of others at Capella University, (most notably Shawn Ambrose who has spent well over a year seeking out every opportunity possible to change the topic on other web sites that have discussed the importance of accessibility), Kurt Linberg finally opened his big mouth, after more than a year of silence, in yet another attack on the student who has filed the lawsuit against him and others at Capella.
Not surprisingly, the original topic on the Phaedrus blog concerned suggestions for improving online learning that were being dicussed on an Australian site. As has been so typical, Linberg plunged in with the following:
“Kurt Linberg Says:
September 28th, 2005 at 11:07 am
In regards to the ex-Capella student, I suggest that interested parties see the hatred that this individual is spreading in one of his many websites, including capellasucks.com. I am very sorry that this individual has decided to use the [sic] IT skills in such hurtful and destructive ways.”
While the site operator, Nate Lowell, permitted Linberg’s drivel to be posted (we’re glad he did as it demonstrates Linberg’s viciousness), he also noted the following:
Of course, Linberg refuses to mention that he:
There is, obviously, far more information about the fact that Linberg is a liar but those matters are discussed elsewhere and will also be part of the trial. We salute Mr. Lowell for his integrity in rightfully questioning the motives of Linberg.
It needs to be mentioned that the attorney, Mr. Russell Thomas, Esq., representing the plaintiff has also posted the following request on of the Australian blogs mentioned:
"Your article was fascinating! I would be interested in being contacted by anyone with a disability who has experienced accessibility problems with any type of online learning platform. I am the attorney who is representing Jeffry La Marca in his lawsuit against Capella. I know there are others with disabilities, especially visual impairments, that have encountered difficulty with their online learning experiences. Please feel free to share these experiences with me. I can be reached by email at rjtlawfirm@yahoo.com."
The bottom line is that the lawsuit is about accessibility - and the fact that Capella has abused students with various types of problems, not just those with learning disabilities is something that continues even now.