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What's up with the CYA lawsuit?
Posted by:
Cousinjonas
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Date: October 19, 2013 06:53PM
Just saw on another website that Chantilly Youth Association is being sued for one million dollars. What do anyone know about it? What I saw said that they fired there training company and then hired all the soccer coaches. The president and executive director did a lot of things that look bad.
Re: What's up with the CYA lawsuit?
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Been there...
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Date: October 22, 2013 11:31PM
...done that. Spi was a bunch of crazies.
http://www.soccerwire.com/news/mens-boys/youth-boys/chantilly-youth-assoc-soccer-club-va-sued-by-coaching-company-spi/
http://www.soccerwire.com/news/mens-boys/youth-boys/chantilly-youth-assoc-soccer-club-va-sued-by-coaching-company-spi/
Re: What's up with the CYA lawsuit?
Posted by:
Rubber Necker
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Date: October 23, 2013 09:24AM
Open email from the President of CYA to ALL the families in the system:
Dear CYA Members,
I am sending you this email to inform you of a baseless lawsuit that has been filed against our non-profit organization and certain individuals who give generously of their time to our program. On October 4, 2013, Soccer Performance International (SPI) and Andy Vera and Deanna Vera – the owners of SPI - filed suit against CYA, its Executive Director, Mark Abbott, its Soccer Chairman, Carlos Orantes, its Technical Director of Soccer, Oscar Feliu, and its Director of Recreational Soccer Programs, Dylan Sutherland. They have since sent emails to numerous individuals and organizations regarding the lawsuit to perpetuate and broadcast the numerous false statements in their lawsuit. The purpose of this email is to provide you with basic information about the lawsuit as we vigorously challenge it in Co urt.
The Complaint filed in the lawsuit is 61 pages long, makes innumerable unfounded personal attacks against the individuals named in the lawsuit, and asserts a baseless damage claim of close to $10 million. It would take much more than a short email to identify the numerous and knowingly false statements set forth in the Complaint. The obvious intent of the Complaint is to slander CYA and the individuals named in the lawsuit as demonstrated by the efforts of the Veras to publicize the lawsuit by sending out emails with links to their Complaint. This is a spite suit that we are confident will be revealed as baseless and contrived. We will not try the case in emails as the Veras have chosen to do. However, there are some basics facts you should be aware of regarding the termination of SPI.
CYA terminated its relationship with SPI a year ago for numerous reasons. CYA received complaints from numerous parents that the Veras were unresponsive, abusive and unprofessional. CYA then received an email from Mr. Vera in which he asked to take a “sabbatical” from being the technical director of soccer for CYA to improve his performance – though he still intended for SPI to continue to receive its more than $4,000 monthly payment for this role. Around this same time, CYA learned that SPI had failed to pay its trainers – the individuals who actually work with the kids in our programs. This failure was confirmed with the trainers themselves. SPI blamed its failure to pay its trainers on CYA, contending that CYA failed to pay SPI. This is demonstrably false, as SPI admitted a year ago. CYA in fact made its payments to SPI, but SPI did not pay its trainers. Confronted with this, Mr. Vera threatened to take teams away from CYA if CYA did not continue its relationship with SPI. These events led CYA to conclude that SPI and the Veras no longer had the best interests of the kids and CYA in mind. Therefore, CYA terminated its relationship with SPI.
A year later SPI and the Veras have now filed their lawsuit. CYA will not bow to the obvious tactic of SPI and the Veras to slander CYA and others and to publicize their lawsuit in hopes of creating discontent. Instead, we will keep our focus on the kids in our program while dealing with the lawsuit in court. I want to reaffirm my commitment to CYA and each of the individuals named in the suit. CYA, along with its people, is an organization built on character, honesty, and hard work. We will do our best to keep you apprised of developments but being that there is ongoing litigation, we need to allow the legal process take its course.
Sincerely,
Ralph Wills
President, CYA
Dear CYA Members,
I am sending you this email to inform you of a baseless lawsuit that has been filed against our non-profit organization and certain individuals who give generously of their time to our program. On October 4, 2013, Soccer Performance International (SPI) and Andy Vera and Deanna Vera – the owners of SPI - filed suit against CYA, its Executive Director, Mark Abbott, its Soccer Chairman, Carlos Orantes, its Technical Director of Soccer, Oscar Feliu, and its Director of Recreational Soccer Programs, Dylan Sutherland. They have since sent emails to numerous individuals and organizations regarding the lawsuit to perpetuate and broadcast the numerous false statements in their lawsuit. The purpose of this email is to provide you with basic information about the lawsuit as we vigorously challenge it in Co urt.
The Complaint filed in the lawsuit is 61 pages long, makes innumerable unfounded personal attacks against the individuals named in the lawsuit, and asserts a baseless damage claim of close to $10 million. It would take much more than a short email to identify the numerous and knowingly false statements set forth in the Complaint. The obvious intent of the Complaint is to slander CYA and the individuals named in the lawsuit as demonstrated by the efforts of the Veras to publicize the lawsuit by sending out emails with links to their Complaint. This is a spite suit that we are confident will be revealed as baseless and contrived. We will not try the case in emails as the Veras have chosen to do. However, there are some basics facts you should be aware of regarding the termination of SPI.
CYA terminated its relationship with SPI a year ago for numerous reasons. CYA received complaints from numerous parents that the Veras were unresponsive, abusive and unprofessional. CYA then received an email from Mr. Vera in which he asked to take a “sabbatical” from being the technical director of soccer for CYA to improve his performance – though he still intended for SPI to continue to receive its more than $4,000 monthly payment for this role. Around this same time, CYA learned that SPI had failed to pay its trainers – the individuals who actually work with the kids in our programs. This failure was confirmed with the trainers themselves. SPI blamed its failure to pay its trainers on CYA, contending that CYA failed to pay SPI. This is demonstrably false, as SPI admitted a year ago. CYA in fact made its payments to SPI, but SPI did not pay its trainers. Confronted with this, Mr. Vera threatened to take teams away from CYA if CYA did not continue its relationship with SPI. These events led CYA to conclude that SPI and the Veras no longer had the best interests of the kids and CYA in mind. Therefore, CYA terminated its relationship with SPI.
A year later SPI and the Veras have now filed their lawsuit. CYA will not bow to the obvious tactic of SPI and the Veras to slander CYA and others and to publicize their lawsuit in hopes of creating discontent. Instead, we will keep our focus on the kids in our program while dealing with the lawsuit in court. I want to reaffirm my commitment to CYA and each of the individuals named in the suit. CYA, along with its people, is an organization built on character, honesty, and hard work. We will do our best to keep you apprised of developments but being that there is ongoing litigation, we need to allow the legal process take its course.
Sincerely,
Ralph Wills
President, CYA
Re: What's up with the CYA lawsuit?
Posted by:
answer man
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Date: February 04, 2014 04:05PM
Any word on the lawsuit?
Re: What's up with the CYA lawsuit?
Posted by:
Soccer Fan
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Date: August 27, 2015 07:12PM
Read the actual law suit online. Sounds like CYA was doing a lot of under handed things. Sounds like they were very unprofessional. Too bad for the children in this association. It's about the children & families. Not the over inflated egos of some.
Re: What's up with the CYA lawsuit?
Posted by:
Soccer parent
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Date: March 06, 2016 07:25AM
Does anyone know whether this lawsuit was resolved? Did anyone get any money from it besides the lawyers?