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The legal document below dated June 22, 2005 is the result of an arbitration argument that was held before
the Honorable Judge Robert Mazzoni. Judge Mazzoni heard arguments presented by the City of Scranton, represented by Hourigan,
Kluger an Quinn, that sought to reverse an award of an arbitrator. Thomas Jennings represented the F.O.P. A reading
of the legal document will disclose that the City at all times acted in bad faith and blatant willful misconduct. It
is specifically stated on page 26 that Arbitrator Light concluded that the incumbent mayor decided to simply ignore
the language of the SIT (Strategic Implementation Team) agreement. More information regarding the impact of this conclusion
by Judge Mazzoni will follow soon in terms of money lost due to Doherty's incompetent and irresponsible handling of this matter.
You will read that due to the administration's bad faith, it was Ordered to pay all legal fees in the matter. Download
free Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 to view this document and then click on either link below. You can read the full decision, or a shortened version
which shows Mazzoni's discussion regarding Doherty's bad faith conduct.
Click here to view Judge Mazzoni's complete decision and order. The file is very large, and may take several minutes to load,
so be patient; the reading is well worth it.
Click here to read the last few pages of the court's disposition to include the final Order, as well as the Arbitrtor's decision
regarding Doherty's bad faith and willful misconduct. This will load faster, but will still take a minute. Be patient.
The whole problem we have with arbitration is that the mayor forces it to happen. You don't
need to know the specifics of each case to know how we're getting screwed here.
When Doherty ran for mayor, he promised that he'd never violate any of the union contracts.
It didn't take long for that promise to fall by the wayside. As soon as he took office, he went right to work pushing all
the buttons that led to his friends making a ton of money off the arbitration process. When he violated the contracts,
he knew he couldn't win the arguments if they went to court. Logically, the unions wouldn't have had their lawyers
go into arbitration unless they could support their arguments with facts because the unions weren't going to waste money on
something they couldn't win. The mayor felt a little differently about that. But, that's because the game was to "cause
the arbitration" and get the legal work to his friends in Philadelphia.
Just like in the case cited above, the mayor lost one case after the other, then he had his
lawyer friends appeal them. It's all one big scheme to suck money out of the taxpayers. Bad enough each arbitration
was costing the city upward of $50,000.00, then the lawyers were appealing decisions they couldn't possible win. Now,
it depends on what you call winning. Is it winning to get a decision from the court in your favor? Or, is it winning
to have the taxpayers of the city of Scranton pay your hefty legal bill for losing? If you guessed having the taxpayers
pay your hefty legal bill for losing, you guessed right.
Doherty and his lawyer friends are the winners, no matter what, and the taxpayers of the City
of Scranton are the losers, no matter what. In addition, when these Philly lawyers had their asses handed to them in
court, the court ended up making the city pay all of the legal expenses for the union's lawyers.
CHRIS DOHERTY DIDN'T INVENT ANYTHING NEW HERE. IT'S ACTUALLY AN OLD GAME FOR LAWYERS.
BUT, HE TOOK IT TO A NEW LEVEL BY ALLOWING THE LEGAL FIRM FROM PHILLY TO GET PAID ENORMOUS FEES FOR WORK THAT WAS NOT
AT ALL COMPLICATED.
IF CHRIS DOHERTY IS RE-ELECTED, THOSE GREEDY LAWYERS WILL BE DOING A LOT MORE ARBITRATION WORK.
THEY'VE ALREADY GOTTEN $700,000.00 OF OUR MONEY.
VOTE TO FIRE THEM ON NOV. 8TH
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