{"id":458,"date":"2010-06-18T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2010-06-18T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:52:50","slug":"milwaukee-aldermen-approve-170000-for-lawsuit-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/milwaukee-aldermen-approve-170000-for-lawsuit-settlements.html","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Aldermen Approve $170,000 For Lawsuit Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Milwaukee’s aldermen cleaned up some legal affairs Tuesday, settling three lawsuits against the city for $170,000, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/96399034.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

One of the\u00a0settlements, for $75,000,\u00a0stemmed from a federal civil rights\u00a0suit that Earl Cosey and\u00a0his ex-girlfriend Michelle Brown filed against the city. In 2005 Cosey, a parolee, was being shook down\u00a0for guns by a Milwaukee police officer, Ala Awadallah.<\/p>\r\n

Cosey collected evidence against Awadallah by recording some of his phone calls with the police officer, and with incriminating voicemails that Awadallah sent him.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Awadallah in 2005 pleaded guilty to depriving a citizen of civil rights, and went to prison for a year.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Milwaukee paid a second settlement, a final payment of $75,000, to\u00a0city police Det.\u00a0Philip Sliwinski, who lost his job after\u00a0following a 2000 sting operation that had actually had targeted another detective,\u00a0Edwin Bonilla. Sliwinski was fired by then police chief Arthur Jones in 2002, even though he was never criminally charged.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Sliwinski sued over his firing. He won his case and was rehired,\u00a0and was awarded\u00a0more than $220,000 in back pay. But this week’s $75,000 settlement is for\u00a0legal fees and penalties\u00a0against the city.<\/p>\r\n

The third settlement this week, $20,000,\u00a0went to the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center.\u00a0The group alleged that the Milwaukee police department violated the First Amendment\u00a0when it shut down the play “Naked Boys Singing” in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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Milwaukee’s aldermen cleaned up some legal affairs Tuesday, settling three lawsuits against the city for $170,000, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/96399034.html One of the\u00a0settlements, for $75,000,\u00a0stemmed from a federal civil rights\u00a0suit that Earl Cosey and\u00a0his ex-girlfriend Michelle Brown filed against the city. In 2005 Cosey, a parolee, was being shook down\u00a0for guns by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[462,4,463],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-milwaukee-settlements","tag-wisconsin-attorney","tag-wisconsin-civil-rights-suits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t