Fire Marshal Blames Union and Mayor For His Removal

Former Los Angeles Fire Marshal John Vidovich has filed a lawsuit accusing Mayor Eric Garcetti and IAFF Local 112, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City (UFLAC) of conspiring to remove him as fire marshal.

LA Sues Recycling Center for Fire Costs

The City of Los Angeles has filed suit against Clean Up America over the costs of battling a trash fire that took six weeks to fully extinguish. The company operates a recycling center that had a trash pile 25 feet high, 252 feet long and 250 feet wide, with an estimated 22 million pounds of trash.

LAFD Prevails in Appeal of $1.1 Million Race Discrimination Verdict

The Los Angeles City Fire Department has prevailed in its appeal of a $1.1 million verdict granted in 2013 to an African American firefighter. Jabari Jumaane sued the city in 2003 claiming race discrimination, racial harassment, and retaliation.

LAX Shooting Case Removed to Federal Court

The wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Fire Department and five other defendants arising out of the shooting of a Transportation Security Administration agent at Los Angeles International Airport in 2013 has been removed to federal court.

$1 Million Whistleblower Verdict Against LAFD Upheld

The California Court of Appeals has upheld a $1 million jury verdict against the City of Los Angeles in a suit brought by two city fire officers. Battalion Chief John Miller and Captain Michael Rueda sued in 2009 after they were removed from the department's Arson Counter-Terrorism Section...

YCMTSU Los Angeles Assault Case Goes to Trial

An LA City firefighter and his mother are on trial for assaulting a woman who they claim had been feeding stray cats in their neighborhood. As we saw yesterday in the Cleveland crash cover-up case, the assault was captured on surveillance video. Firefighter Ian Eulian and his mother, Lonieta Fontaine, 70, stand accused of accosting Rebecca Stafford, 47, in September, 2013. The prosecution rested yesterday.

LAFD Hit With $1.1 Race Discrimination Verdict

A jury has awarded a Los Angeles City firefighter $1.1 million in damages for race discrimination. The verdict came yesterday for veteran firefighter Jabari S. Jumaane, following seven weeks of trial and sixteen days of jury deliberations in Los Angeles ...

LA City Fire Watchdog Sues City Attorneys

It would appear that all-out warfare has broken out between the LA City Fire Department’s Internal Assessor Stephen Miller and the City Attorneys office. Last Wednesday, Miller filed a massive 97 page suit against the city and the city’s top ...

LAFD Discipline Audit Critical of Alternative Process

The release of an internal audit of the Los Angeles City Fire Department’s alternative investigation process seems not only to have criticized the department, it appears to have totally confused many media outlets who are reporting that the audit faulted ...

LAFD Discipline Philosophy

One of the areas of my law practice that has been exceptionally busy over the past few years has been firefighter discipline. Many departments are experiencing unprecedented disciplinary issues – and while we can debate the various factors that are ...

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