Legal Opinion
Brown v. City of Los Angeles
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 10, 2008No. 06-55699PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Per curiam
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Plaintiffs Darryl Brown and Martin Whitfield were injured in the line of duty as officers of the City of Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”). They both applied for benefits under LAPD’s disability retirement pension, which contains an offset: disability pension payments are reduced by the amount of any worker’s compensation award the officer receives for the disabling injury. Plaintiffs claim that the offset amounts to disability discrimination. They sued the City in state court, alleging violations of (1) Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”), (2) California’s…
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