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Baltimore City Training LODD Suit Dismissed
A $15 million Federal lawsuit filed by the family of a female Baltimore City fire cadet killed in a training fire in 2007, has been dismissed. Judge Benson Everett Legg ruled that the fire department was not guilty of violating cadet Racheal Wilson civil rights.
The case was originally filed in state court, but removed to US District Court at the city’s request because the suit alleged Federal civil rights violations. Wilson’s family and her estate may still have some state law rights that will now have to be addressed in state court.
Judge Legg’s decision was issued last Friday, December 3, 2010.
