Tag Archives: defamation

Today’s burning question: After an apparatus accident last week and I was sent for routine drug/alcohol testing. The local newspaper wrote an article about the accident naming me as the driver and indicating that I was sent for drug testing. The way it was written implied I was sent because I did something wrong.

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A Michigan fire chief who was wrongly accused of criminal misconduct and terminated, has filed suit against a township alleging defamation, malicious prosecution, and retaliation for testifying in an earlier case. Marquette Township fire chief Bob Sims was suspended last December and terminated in February, 2015.

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The lawsuit filed by a Philadelphia firefighter whose photo was used in an article in the New York Daily News last January about a sex scandal in the Philadelphia Fire Department, has been dismissed. However, his attorneys have already filed an appeal in the case.

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A volunteer fire department in New York is facing a defamation suit over the application of a man who claims he was falsely accused of being a “child molester”. Vincent C. Stevenson applied to join the East Syracuse Fire Department in 2012. He claims that an employee of the village fire department, Dawn Cramer, falsely accused him of being a "child molester."

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A decorated Philadelphia firefighter is suing the New York Daily News claiming that in January when the paper was covering a major sex scandal in the Philadelphia Fire Department, it wrongly used his photo and name implying he was somehow involved. Francis Cheney II filed suit against the paper in Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas on February 11, 2015. The case was removed to US District Court last week by the Daily News.

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The owners of a landmark Maine restaurant that was destroyed by fire in December 2013, have filed suit against the fire department and ten individual firefighters claiming they either purposefully or negligently allowed the building to burn.

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A lawsuit filed last month in state court by four Massachusetts firefighters has been removed to federal court by attorneys retained for the defense by the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Agency. The suit was filed on September 2, 2014 by four former members of the Groton Fire Department.

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In a case that is certain to be a contender for the YCMTSU Case of the Year for 2014, an applicant for the New Haven Fire Department is suing the city claiming he was passed over because the Fire Chief is having a relationship with his ex-girlfriend.

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Four Groton, Massachusetts firefighters have filed suit against their former department and eight town officials claiming wrongful termination, civil rights violations, defamation, emotional distress, and other charges.

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A California firefighter who was fired last year following a police report that he was involved in "gang activity" as a member of a motorcycle gang, has filed suit against two law enforcement agencies and the Sergeant who allegedly informed his fire chief.

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A defamation suit filed by two former chiefs against two former firefighters for comments anonymously posted on-line has been dismissed. Former Halifax Fire Chief Bill Mosher and former Deputy Chief Stephen Thurber filed suit against former firefighters Blair Cromwell and ...

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The already bizarre case of the Asiana Airlines crash just took a major detour toward the extreme bizarre with word that a San Francisco firefighter has filed a claim against the city alleging that she has been defamed and discriminated ...

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An embattled California fire chief who himself was the subject of three lawsuits is now filing one himself over his demotion to battalion chief last year. That leaves the fire protection district battling four separate lawsuits – and the plaintiff ...

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The former fire chief of a California fire district who resigned last year has filed suit against the district claiming defamation and fraud. Fire chief Marc Revere resigned from the Novato Fire District in November 2012 shortly after questions were ...

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