Scott Millspaugh was a firefighter for Cobb County, Georgia. Millspaugh assisted with the scheduling of staff in his battalion and regularly discussed staffing with his Battalion Chief, John Graham, as part of his job duties. Millspaugh sometimes received notifications from other firefighters regarding their use of leave, and Millspaugh was responsible for finding another firefighter…
Many in the United States have seen a five-second clip from a video taken by a journalist of Buffalo police officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski (“the Officers”) pushing 75-year-old Martin A. Gugino to the ground during a protest on June 4, 2020. Few, however, have seen the entire video, or bodycam videos taken of…
Christopher Wise was a cadet in the Austin Police Academy. In a lawsuit he later filed, Wise alleged that on October 1, 2018, he was engaged in “a very strenuous series of physical exercises in an activity entitled Stress Reaction Training.” The training was scheduled from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on a day when…
In December 2017, the Thomas Fire destroyed and damaged numerous residences and caused widespread power outages in Ventura, California. Sorin Popescu lived on a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood that lost power. As the family was trying to decide whether to evacuate, Popescu heard a noise from the house next door. He went to investigate, worried…
Angela Branford was a deputy sheriff with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon. Branford met Sergeant Jonathan Christensen when he led a training session. Sometime in 2013 or 2014, Branford and Christensen began a consensual romantic and sexual relationship. During the course of the relationship, Branford described Christensen’s behavior as growing more controlling. Branford…
There are times when court decisions reach contrary results that are simply irreconcilable. And so it was in September 2018, when two neighboring courts reached opposite results in cases involving whether an employer could be civilly liable for sexual assaults committed on the job. One of the cases involved Milwaukee County Corrections Officer Xavier Thicklen.…
