City must rehire officer | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY: "An appeals court denied West Melbourne's request for a rehearing in a lawsuit won by a former police officer who was fired for calls made to a psychic hot line.
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In a one-sentence decision, the 5th District Court of Appeal denied the appeal for a rehearing filed by the city Dec. 22 after the court determined former police Officer Bryon Park should have been reinstated with back pay in September 1998. The lawsuit has been the subject of 10 years of legal wrangling.
Park, a nine-year veteran of the department, was making $33,000 a year when he was fired. Without factoring in cost-of-living adjustments and other benefits, back pay could top $330,000, according to his attorney's calculations."
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