Labor & Employment Law

Court of Appeals ends disciplinary proceeding

"The former sewage-treatment plant superintendent for Amherst (New York) fought an unrelenting seven-year battle for his job. But last week, the state?s highest court refused to hear his case, bringing an end to the long legal odyssey.

"Anthony R. Canna. was first suspended in 2001, then fired on grounds of incompetence and misconduct in 2003. Since that time, the town has racked up an astonishing legal bill that doesn?t include the wages paid to Canna when he was suspended from his duties and still drawing a full salary.

"The $1.2 million, footed by Amherst taxpayers, outstrips the costs the town has paid to defend any other single lawsuit that Town Attorney E. Thomas Jones can recall. Paul D. Weiss, the lawyer who has represented the town in disciplinary proceedings against Canna since 2001, said that this one case generated 22,000 pages of legal transcripts and 600 court exhibits..."
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Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).