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Post by Police Moderator on Apr 8, 2013 4:05:21 GMT -5
Fired Chattanooga police officer gets new hearing on request for job back A former Chattanooga Police Department officer could find out today whether he will get back the job he lost in 2009. Three City Council members will meet and hear from Mickel Hoback's lawyers and city attorneys and then decide whether to reinstate the former officer and 2007 Officer of the Year. If he is rehired, a lengthy series of appeals now in legal limbo will end, possibling ( sic) saving the city a few hundred thousand dollars. But if not, those appeals will drag on. Hoback stands to collect $680,000 a jury awarded him at the end of a 2011 trial. Read more: times free press
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