Crime & Safety

Report: Fired Monarch Chiefs' Suit Won't Go To Trial

Three longtime members of the department were scheduled to have their case go to federal court next month.

A federal lawsuit filed by a group of former Monarch Fire Protection District chiefs will not get to the trial stage.

West Newsmagazine is reporting that a judge on Tuesday issued a summary judgment for Monarch in the suit filed by by Leslie Crews, Cary Spiegel and Michael Davis. The three filed suit when they were dismissed after being identified in an employment discrimination lawsuit that the district lost at the state court level.

A fourth person dismissed in the wake of the employment discrimination suit took his own life shortly afterward.

According to West Newsmagazine, the judge "found the officers had failed to exhaust administrative remedies before filing their lawsuit. He also said the plaintiffs had not requested a hearing to clear their names and had not asserted any policy, custom or practice followed by the district that led to the alleged violation of their due process rights."

The case had been scheduled to go to trial in September.


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