Tag Archives: statute of limitations

A firefighter with the New Orleans Fire Department has been reinstated and his termination reversed because the fire department took longer than 60-days to complete its investigation. Robert Pitre, Jr. was fired on September 28, 2020 for making a false report regarding an incident that occurred on June 14, 2020.

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An applicant to FDNY who was rejected over questions about his residency, has lost a lawsuit to force the city to hire him, because he waited too long to challenge the residency determination. Tyler Cruz-Rivas took the FDNY entrance exam in 2017. Applicants were required to have lived in New York City in 2014 and 2015.

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A lawsuit filed against the City of Phoenix by man who spent 14 months in jail on arson charges for an accidental fire, has been dismissed. Carl Vincent Ball Caples claimed the city violated his civil rights when investigators charged him with arson.

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Three wrongful termination cases are in the fire law headlines today, one from Oregon, one from Pennsylvania and one from Michigan. All three are updates on cases we covered in the past few months.

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A Chicago firefighter who was the victim of outrageous police misconduct by a group of corrupt officers that included threats to plant evidence against him and get him fired, has passed an important legal hurtle in efforts to hold the individual officers responsible.

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