A Florida appeals court tossed out an $80,000 anti-discrimination settlement in February because the beneficiary’s teenage daughter couldn’t keep from bragging about it — even though the terms of the settlement required confidentiality. Miami’s Gulliver Proprietary School had offered the sum to former headmaster Patrick Snay to make Snay’s lawsuit go away, but Dana Snay almost immediately told her 1,200 Facebook friends that “Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. Suck it.” Wrote the court, “[Snay’s] daughter did precisely what the confidentiality agreement was designed to prevent.”
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