Schenectady City Councilman Joe Allen has long lambasted city and county officials for not working hard enough to hire minorities and women.
Now he's on the other side of the issue -- at least according to a $420 million lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court last week.
Larry Bratton, a former employee of the nonprofit Minority Contractors Technical Assistance Program in Schenectady, contends he was let go for giving the city and Schenectady County a hard time about doing a poor job getting contractors to hire minorities.
In court papers, Bratton charged that Allen and Olivia Adams, both members of MCTAP's board, fired him in December after Bratton filed requests for documents about the city and county's affirmative action policies. He followed up with an Article 78 action in state Supreme Court when the records were denied.
The court papers detail many other slights Bratton alleges, stating: "The city and county of Schenectady have engaged in a concerted effort to undermine affirmative action and the civil rights of minorities and routinely grant contracts and compliance waivers to those company's (sic) that refuse to employ minorities and women."
Bratton says the $420 million is intended to be a class action award that would be shared with minority contractors in the community.
Plaintiff: Larry Bratton Defendants: Joe Allen, City of Schenectady, County of Schenectady, Susan Savage, Emmanuel Adams, Olivia Adams, Brian Stratton, Carl Olsen and JOHN DOE
Case Number: 1:2011cv00077 Filed: January 21, 2011
Court: New York Northern District Court Office: Albany Office County: Schenectady Presiding Judge: David N. Hurd Referring Judge: David R. Homer
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights - Other Civil Rights Cause: 42:1983 Jurisdiction: Federal Question Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff
Don't know if this is the same guy but if it is maybe he likes to file lawsuits?
2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 28392,*;256 Fed. Appx. 432
LARRY A. BRATTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, -v.- GLENN S. GOORD, Commissioner of Corrections, PATRICIA GLYNN, ST. DENNIS, Defendants, ROY GIRDICH, Superintendent, DONNA LAWRENCE, R.N., NANCY SMITH, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 06-3313-pr
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
256 Fed. Appx. 432; 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 28392
December 7, 2007, Decided
NOTICE:
PLEASE REFER TO FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE RULE 32.1 GOVERNING THE CITATION TO UNPUBLISHED OPINIONS.
PRIOR HISTORY: Bratton v. Goord, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97128 (N.D.N.Y, May 23, 2006)
COUNSEL: [*1] FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT: Larry A. Bratton, Pro se, Schenectady, N.Y.
FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES: Julie M. Sheridan, Assistant Solicitor General (Barbara D. Underwood, Peter H. Schiff,of counsel), for Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y.
JUDGES: PRESENT: HON. RALPH K. WINTER, HON. JOHN M. WALKER, JR., HON. GUIDO CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.
Don't know if this is the same guy but if it is maybe he likes to file lawsuits?
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Sure looks that way.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
OR....he's never had to hire someone who cant perform/complete/measure up to the job description....and it really doesn't matter how menial it is.... YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO PERFORM.......PERIOD(S)
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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