{"id":338334,"date":"2010-02-18T22:50:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877b75c45970c"},"modified":"2010-02-18T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:50:08","slug":"appeals-court-overturns-l-a-fire-department-bias-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/338334","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court overturns L.A. Fire Department bias case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A state appellate court Thursday overturned a high-profile Los Angeles Fire Department harassment and discrimination case in which a black lesbian firefighter was awarded $6.2 million after she was allegedly forced out. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The 2nd District Court of Appeal concluded that firefighter Brenda Lee failed to exhaust her administrative remedies regarding a claim that she was not permitted to return to work. The case was remanded to Los Angeles Superior Court.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In issuing its ruling, the court agreed with city attorneys who had argued that Lee did not use all the administrative remedies available to her. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Lee&#8217;s 2007 jury award was one of several harassment and discrimination cases that roiled the Fire Department and cost city tax payers millions of dollars to settle. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In 2007, an investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that the department violated civil rights laws by subjecting African American and female firefighters to a &quot;pattern and practice&quot; of discrimination, harassment and retaliation.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Allegations of harassment, retaliation and discrimination helped prompt the 2007 retirement of former Fire Chief William Bamattre.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez <\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state appellate court Thursday overturned a high-profile Los Angeles Fire Department harassment and discrimination case in which a black lesbian firefighter was awarded $6.2 million after she was allegedly forced out. The 2nd District Court of Appeal concluded that firefighter Brenda Lee failed to exhaust her administrative remedies regarding a claim that she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}