WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 1 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MONONGALIA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY : BOARD OF GOVERNORS for : and on behalf of WEST : VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, : Plaintiff : CIVIL ACTION NO. v : NO. 07-C-851 RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, : : Defendant : * * * Videotaped Deposition of Michael Garrison Thursday, June 12, 2008 * * * a witness herein, taken on behalf of the defendant in the above-entitled cause of action pursuant to notice and the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure by and before Connie M. Nichols, Court Reporter and Notary Public within and for the State of West Virginia, at the law offices of Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso, PLLC, 965 Hartman Run Road, Suite 1105, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, commencing at 8:38 a.m. STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 2 1 APPEARANCES: 2 3 On behalf of the Plaintiff: 4 THOMAS V. FLAHERTY, Esquire 5 JEFFREY M. WAKEFIELD, Esquire 6 Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso, PLLC, 200 Capitol 7 Street, Charleston, West Virginia 25338-3843 8 Telephone: (304) 345-0200 9 Fax: (304) 345-0260 10 E-mail: [email protected] 11 [email protected] 12 13 ROBERT P. FITZSIMMONS, Esquire 14 ROBERT J. FITZSIMMONS, Esquire 15 Fitzsimmons Law Offices, 1609 Warwood Avenue, 16 Wheeling, West Virginia 26003 17 Telephone: (304) 277-1700 18 Fax: (304) 277-1705 19 E-mail: [email protected] 20 [email protected] 21 22 23 24 STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 3 1 APPEARANCES (Cont.): 2 3 On behalf of the Plaintiff: 4 ALEXANDER MACIA, Esquire 5 West Virginia University, Office of the 6 President, 105 Stewart Hall, Morgantown, 7 West Virginia 26506-6201 8 Telephone: (304) 293-5670 9 Fax: (304) 293-2326 10 E-mail: [email protected] 11 12 13 On behalf of the Defendant: 14 MARVIN A. ROBON, Esquire 15 Barkan & Robon Ltd., 1701 Woodlands Drive, 16 Suite 100, Maumee, Ohio 43537-4092 17 Telephone: (419) 897-6500 18 Fax: (419) 897-6200 19 E-mail: [email protected] 20 21 22 23 24 STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 4 1 APPEARANCES (Cont.): 2 3 On behalf of the Defendant: 4 SEAN P. McGINLEY, Esquire 5 DiTrapano, Barrett & DiPiero, PLLC, 604 Virginia 6 Street East, Charleston, West Virginia 25301 7 Telephone: (304) 342-0133 8 Fax: (304) 342-4605 9 E-mail: [email protected] 10 11 12 13 14 ALSO PRESENT: 15 Richard Rodriguez 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 5 1 I N D E X 2 WITNESS PAGE 3 Michael Garrison 4 Examination By Mr. Robon .............. 11 5 Examination By Mr. Flaherty ........... 359 6 Examination By Mr. Robon .............. 370 7 8 9 E X H I B I T S 10 PAGE 11 Garrison Deposition Exhibit RR ............. 29 12 Garrison Deposition Exhibit SS ............. 38 13 Garrison Deposition Exhibit TT ............. 45 14 Garrison Deposition Exhibit UU ............. 63 15 Garrison Deposition Exhibit VV ............. 65 16 Garrison Deposition Exhibit WW ............. 67 17 Garrison Deposition Exhibit XX ............. 90 18 Garrison Deposition Exhibit YY ............. 107 19 Garrison Deposition Exhibit ZZ ............. 139 20 Garrison Deposition Exhibit AAA ............ 142 21 Garrison Deposition Exhibit BBB ............ 152 22 Garrison Deposition Exhibit CCC ............ 181 23 Garrison Deposition Exhibit DDD ............ 195 24 Garrison Deposition Exhibit EEE ............ 197 STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 6 1 E X H I B I T S (Cont.) 2 PAGE 3 Garrison Deposition Exhibit FFF ............ 197 4 Garrison Deposition Exhibit GGG ............ 198 5 Garrison Deposition Exhibit HHH ............ 198 6 Garrison Deposition Exhibit III ............ 199 7 Garrison Deposition Exhibit JJJ ............ 199 8 Garrison Deposition Exhibit KKK ............ 201 9 Garrison Deposition Exhibit LLL ............ 203 10 Garrison Deposition Exhibit MMM ............ 205 11 Garrison Deposition Exhibit OOO ............ 250 12 Garrison Deposition Exhibit NNN ............ 321 13 Garrison Deposition Exhibit OOO ............ 327 14 Garrison Deposition Exhibit PPP ............ 333 15 Garrison Deposition Exhibit QQQ ............ 342 16 Garrison Deposition Exhibit RRR ............ 343 17 18 19 O B J E C T I O N S 20 PAGE LINE 21 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 25 19 22 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 80 15 23 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 93 20 24 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 98 22 STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 7 1 O B J E C T I O N S (Cont.) 2 PAGE LINE 3 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 101 17 4 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 120 5 5 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 123 11 6 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 161 23 7 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 171 2 8 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 173 1 9 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 174 1 10 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 176 14 11 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 196 18 12 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 235 2 13 By Mr. Robon .......................... 242 14 14 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 243 23 15 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 295 10 16 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 298 12 17 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 313 18 18 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 315 11 19 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 317 12 20 By Mr. Wakefield ...................... 322 23 21 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 324 4 22 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 327 10 23 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 337 5 24 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 337 13 STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 8 1 O B J E C T I O N S (Cont.) 2 PAGE LINE 3 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 341 21 4 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 349 19 5 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 351 24 6 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 353 12 7 By Mr. Flaherty ....................... 356 20 8 By Mr. Robon .......................... 361 4 9 By Mr. Robon .......................... 361 16 10 By Mr. Robon .......................... 362 13 11 By Mr. Robon .......................... 362 23 12 By Mr. Robon .......................... 364 2 13 By Mr. Robon .......................... 364 8 14 By Mr. Robon .......................... 364 22 15 By Mr. Robon .......................... 365 4 16 By Mr. Robon .......................... 366 1 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 9 1 * * * 2 P R O C E E D I N G S 3 * * * 4 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Will 5 everyone please turn off all cell phones, 6 BlackBerries, pagers and portable communication 7 devices. 8 We're now on the record in the 9 matter of WVU versus Rodriguez, Civil Action 10 No. 07-C-851. 11 My name is John Taylor, I'm a legal 12 video specialist from Katz Consulting Group, LLC, 13 located at 820 Quarrier Street, Charleston, West 14 Virginia 25301. I'm not related to any parties 15 to this action or to counsel of record, nor do I 16 have a financial interest in this action. 17 Today is June 12, 2008, the time is 18 8:38 a.m. This deposition is taking place at 19 Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso, PLLC, 965 Hartman 20 Run Road, Morgantown, West Virginia. The 21 deponent today is Mike Garrison. 22 Will the court reporter, counsel and 23 attendees please identify themselves. 24 THE COURT REPORTER: Connie STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 10 1 Nichols with Streski Reporting & Video Service, 2 court reporter. 3 MR. ROBON: Marvin A. Robon 4 from Barkan & Robon of Maumee, Ohio, representing 5 Rich Rodriguez. 6 MR. RODRIGUEZ: Rich 7 Rodriguez. 8 MR. McGINLEY: Sean McGinley 9 for Richard Rodriguez. 10 MR. R.J. FITZSIMMONS: Robert 11 J. Fitzsimmons on behalf of West Virginia 12 University. 13 MR. MACIA: Alex Macia with 14 West Virginia University. 15 MR. WAKEFIELD: Jeff 16 Wakefield, representing West Virginia University. 17 MR. R.P. FITZSIMMONS: Bob 18 Fitzsimmons, representing West Virginia 19 University. 20 MR. FLAHERTY: Tom Flaherty 21 on behalf of West Virginia as counsel, its board 22 of governors, and the witness. 23 MR. GARRISON: Mike Garrison, 24 West Virginia University. STRESKI REPORTING & VIDEO 1-800-659-2249 Wheeling, WV Morgantown, WV Charleston, WV Steubenville, OH Pittsburgh, PA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 6/12/2008 GARRISON MICHAEL Page 11 1 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Will the 2 court reporter please swear in the witness. 3 * * * 4 MICHAEL GARRISON 5 being first duly sworn, was examined and deposed 6 as follows: 7 * * * 8 E X A M I N A T I O N 9 BY MR. ROBON: 10 Q. Would you indicate for the jury your 11 name and address. 12 A. My name is Mike Garrison, I live at 13 948 Riverview Drive, Morgantown, West Virginia.