ENEWSLETTER: October 2015

Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice

The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.

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Four Former Nassau County Correction Officers and Deputy Sheriffs File Suit Against Nassau County and the Sheriff for Disability Discrimination and Refusal to Give Them Their Guns

Retired Officers Look to Regain Their Civil Rights

Alexandros Perros, Thomas Delle, Nicholas Lenoci, and Victor Patalano, all former members of the Nassau County Sheriff's Department, have filed suit in Federal Court for themselves and as a class on behalf of all persons similarly situated and/or former Sheriff's Department personnel who were denied proper "Recommendation For Consideration Of Application For Pistol License For Retiring Peace [Police] Officer" forms and/or "Good Guy Letters" following retirement, due to injury and/or disability.

The suit, filed on September 28th in Federal Court in Central Islip, names the County of Nassau, Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Michael Sposato (individually and officially), and the Nassau County Police Department for their actions in denying them gun permits and licenses for handguns with the "express purpose of harming Plaintiffs, infringing upon Plaintiffs' property rights, retaliating against Plaintiffs for belonging to a protected class of employees with disabilities, removing the Plaintiffs from the same level as other former Correction Officers and Deputy Sheriffs, retaliating against Plaintiffs for retiring due to their respective disabilities; and generally violating their rights as protected by the United States and New York State Constitutions, and federal and state statutes, rules and regulations."

Frederick K. Brewington, Esq., along with Gregory Calliste, Jr. of the Firm are working on this case for the firm. Mr. Brewington stated, "This suit is necessary to change how disabled officers, who served this County well, are being treated by the County when they want the same benefits that other retirees get. None of their disabilities make them ineligible to own, purchase and carry firearms and there is no good reason for them to have been treated differently."

The suit, filed as a Class Action, seeks monetary and equitable remedies for the wrongful actions of the Defendants. A copy of the Complaint filed in Federal Court is attached.

Click here to read the complaint.

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