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Published: May 31, 2006 - 11:14:32 pm EDT
Troopers get $2M in suit
By Randall Chase, Associated Press
DOVER — A federal court jury awarded almost $2 million
Wednesday to three troopers who claimed they were subjected to
retaliation for speaking out about problems at the now-closed state
police tiring range in Smyrna.
The U.S. District Court jury in Wilmington deliberated about six hours
before finding that the current and fomier superintendents of the
Delaware State Police violated the constitutional rights of Cpls. Kurt
Price and Wayne Warren and Sgt. Christopher Foraker.
The seven-member jury found that former police superintendent Aaron
Chaftinch and his successor, Col. Thomas MacLeish, acted "recklessly,
maliciously, or intentionally" in retaliating against the troopers for
exercising their tree speech rights.
The jury also found that Chaftinch defamed Foraker in suggesting to the
media that Foraker was to blame for problems at the tiring range, where
problems stemming from poor design and construction surfaced almost
innnediately upon its opening in 1998. The jury rejected Foraker’s
contention that MacLeish also defamed him in a television interview.
The jury awarded compensatory damages of $862,395 to Price,
$543,276 to Warren, and $74,676 to Foraker. Each of those amotmts
includes $2,200 for emotional distress, injury to reputation and
humiliation.
Chaftinch was ordered to pay punitive damages of $15,682 to
Foraker, $113,625 to Warren, and $181,103 to Price. MacLeish was
ordered to pay punitive damages of $6,720 to Foraker, $48,697 to
Warren, and $77,615 to Price.
"Their honor has been restored,†said the troopers’ attorney, Thomas
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