A firing from the 1990s is still unresolved, and his own job hunt could shrink the payout
A DC agency pushed out an employee who flagged "waste, fraud, and abuse" - decades later, a court says a jury must set the damages.
The case began in the 1990s, when a longtime District of Columbia Lottery employee started flagging problems. Hired in 1985 as an auditor, he rose to security systems administrator by 1996. But his relationship with supervisors "quickly began to sour," according to the court, after audits he oversaw turned up what he thought was "unethical, if not illegal, behavior" at the Lottery Board.
He kept raising concerns through the summer of 1996. His supervisor responded with a series of actions that ended his career there. He was moved from a protected Career Service role into a job already marked for elimination, then told the position was gone. A brief temporary assignment ran out in early 1997, leaving him without work.
He sued in May 1997, arguing the District denied him due process before effectively ending his employment. The employee has since died, and his daughter now carries the case as representative of his estate. After years of appeals, the courts found the District liable: his procedural due process rights were violated when he was reassigned to a position slated for elimination without notice or a hearing. An appeals court concluded the Lottery's executive director had acted as a "final policymaker" for the District, making it responsible for his...
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