A University of Wisconsin Varsity Band member fined $41.38 after a rowdy road trip doesn’t have a federal case against band director Michael Leckrone, District Judge Barbara Crabb has ruled.
Crabb dismissed on Thursday a lawsuit brought by business school graduate David B. Gauder. He and 28 other band members were collectively fined $1,200 by Leckrone after he learned they had used the “f-word” six times during a return bus trip from the 2004 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament in Indianapolis.