Fired Officer, City Settle

Summary


Attorneys Scott Blankenship of Seattle, left, and Greg Ferguson of Vancouver, right, listen as former Vancouver police Officer Navin Sharma discusses reaching a settlement with the city in an employment discrimination case.

Vancouver will pay former police Officer Navin K. Sharma $1.65 million to end a federal racial discrimination lawsuit under terms of a settlement announced Tuesday.

See the full content of this document

Extract


Fired Officer, City Settle

Sharma, 52, was fired in 2006 for making errors in drunken driving reports. But his attorneys claimed the errors were inadvertent mistakes not meriting termination. They said Sharma had been targeted for retaliation and had endured taunts about his East Indian ethnicity ever since getting labeled as a snitch in 1998 for testifying against two sergeants in an internal affairs investi...

See the full content of this document

Sponsored links




ver las páginas en versión mobile | web

ver las páginas en versión mobile | web

© Copyright 2012, vLex. All Rights Reserved.

Contents in vLex United States

Explore vLex

For Professionals

For Partners

Company