A state hearing officer is recommending that a fired Florida Highway Patrol trooper be given his job back. The recommended order states that Trooper Charles Swindle should have been suspended without pay instead of losing his job. Swindle was fired …
A Bridgeport, Wash. public works employee who was fired by the mayor for shoplifting a $1.69 fruit pie is filing a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city. Mayor Marilynn Lynn told The Wenatchee World the value of the theft didn’t …
A secretary who says she was fired over a Facebook posting made from her home computer and on her own time is suing a West Virginia sheriff’s department for federal civil rights violations. Sonya Olako said she was fired last …
A fired state trooper, as well as some current and former troopers, testified last week that the Florida Highway Patrol had an informal policy of giving breaks to legislators caught speeding. The highway patrol maintains no such policy exists — …
A jury has awarded more than $2.7 million to five former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory workers in an ongoing wrongful-termination case. The San Francisco Chronicle reported jurors awarded the workers reimbursement for their lost wages after finding that the lab …
Fired University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey has filed a lawsuit against the school. The Idaho State Judiciary website lists the suit as having been filed April 16 in Latah County and names the University of Idaho, University of …
A South Carolina high school teacher removed from the classroom when he stomped on an American flag while discussing freedom is being paid $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge. The State newspaper obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act …
Dozens of fired Los Angeles police officers are taking up the chief’s offer to re-examine their dismissals since a deadly rampage by Christopher Dorner, who claimed that he was wrongly expelled from the force. The Los Angeles Times reported 40 …
Former Nevada Capitol Police Chief Tom Navin is suing the Nevada Department of Public Safety, claiming he was wrongfully terminated for failing a physical. Navin, in his district court suit filed this week, contends he was legally exempt from the …
A jury is hearing from former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory workers in Northern California who say they were unfairly targeted due to age, salaries and other issues. The Oakland Tribune reported 130 ex-employees are suing lab management, claiming wrongful termination …
