For Police and Emergency Personnel

In addition to any union contract, there are federal and state employment laws which protect all police, fire, EMT, and other emergency personnel. We have substantial experience representing emergency personnel with employment issues such as severance, employment contracts, termination, layoff, retaliation, whistle blowing and employment discrimination. Below are some of the cases we’ve handled successfully. If you are emergency personnel with a similar employment problem, contact us today.

Nature of Case	Results	Jurisdiction
Procedural Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983; Denial of Promotion	Obtained a six figure recovery on behalf of three, long time police Sergeants each denied promotion to Lieutenant in favor of two, less experienced officers including a Corporal in violation of state law requiring that Lieutenant promotees have at least two years time in grade as Sergeants.	United States District Court For the District of Delaware
Police Chief Due Process	Won immediate reinstatement after a 5 day hearing for a police chief charged with 17 counts of alleged misconduct and suspended for over 5 months by the town government. All charges were dismissed, and the client returned to work.	Sussex County, Delaware
National Origin and Race Discrimination; Denial of Promotions in Local Government Employment	Obtained a $215,000 settlement on behalf of two Hispanic police officers each denied promotion to Sergeant because of their ethnicity.	United States District Court For the District of Delaware
Perceived Disability and Age Discrimination; Delaware Worker’s Compensation Improvement Act	Procured a settlement for an EMT/Firefighter who was forced to undergo a fitness for duty test, suspended just nine months after filing a workers’ compensation claim for a knee injury, and encouraged to resign by the president of the fire company who told him, “Let’s face it. You are 45.”	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances	Obtained a judgment for a police lieutenant denied three promotions to captain despite ranking first on the test for the vacancy after he testified before a federal grand jury against the county executive and his chief administrative officer.	United States District Court For the District of Delaware
Unemployment Appeal in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania	Won an appeal hearing granting unemployment benefits to a Transportation Security Specialist fired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after it falsely accused him of inappropriately using his position to avoid a speeding ticket.	Pennsylvania Department Of Labor
Arbitration; County Government Employment Benefits under a Collective Bargaining Agreement	Sustained a grievance restoring all vacation and sick leave and compensating for missed shift differential, holiday pay, and acting sergeant’s pay for a county police officer who, despite being cleared for duty by his cardiologist, was not permitted to work for allegedly non-work related chest pain sustained after chasing a suspected drug dealer on foot.	American Arbitration Association

Client Testimonials

“I am very much impressed on how well the case is going and how very very good John LaRosa is … (The Public is very very impressed with John LaRosa also.)

John LaRosa is very calm & cool and very professional when he is talking to the public an fighting the case at hand. I have seen and been up against a lot of lawyers in my 20 plus years as a police officer, but … John is one of the best I have ever seen.”
– WEP