Legal Opinion
Forras v. Andros
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 29, 2005No. 04 CIV 3692 SCRPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
ROBINSON, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a former volunteer firefighter, claims that Defendants retaliated against him for exercising Ms First Amendment rights in making public comments about the working conditions at Ground Zero in the days and weeks following the September 11th terrorist attacks. Defendants moved for a judgment on the pleadings under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c) or, in the alternative, for summary judgment. For the reasons discussed below, Defendants’ motion is denied.
I. Background
On September 11, 2001, the Plaintiff, Vincent Forras (“Plaintiff’), a volunteer…
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