BRIEFLY : COURT: COPS CAN'T SUE FOR PROMOTION.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - Because public employees have no constitutional right to fairness in promotions, police cannot sue in federal court to force their department to follow its own promotion rules, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. In refusing to reinstate a lawsuit by three Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police officers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the constitutional standards that protect some government employees against arbitrary demotions and firings do not apply to promotions. Constitutional protections against arbitrary government action do not apply ``until someone actually receives a promotion, or at least a binding assurance of a forthcoming promotion,'' said Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain (born 1937, New York City) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers are located in Portland, Oregon. in the 3-0 ruling. ``The federal judiciary is not a good-government watchdog.'' The three police sergeants, David Nunez, Alex Gomez and Clyde Vlaskamp, sued after taking the lieutenant's exam one or more times and failing to win promotions. They accused the Police Department of favoritism in applying official department policy that required all candidates to have a year of experience as a supervisor. Several applicants without that experience were allowed to take the test and were promoted after getting high scores, the lawsuit stated. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Five acres of forest burn near Sunland ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los - Fire swept through five acres of brush Friday in the Angeles National Forest just above Sunland. The blaze broke out at 3 p.m. at Alpine Way The Alpine Way is a State highway in New South Wales, Australia. The Alpine Way starts near Jindabyne on the eastern side of the Snowy Mountains. It runs south-west past Thredbo and crosses the crest of the Great Dividing Range at Dead Horse Gap. and Linda View Place, said city Fire Department spokesman Bob Collis. The fire took about an hour to control. There were no injuries or property damage reported. - City News Service Van hits 5-year-old who ran into traffic NORTH HILLS - A 5-year-old boy was hit by a van, dragged 32 feet and seriously injured after darting into traffic Friday, traffic investigators said. The child, Gabriel Ramirez, ran across a mid-block section of Langdon Avenue into the path of Amparo Garibay, 35, of North Hills, driving south about 1 p.m. in a Ford van, said Officer Linda Ward of the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division. The boy suffered a fractured skull, cuts to his head and a badly injured knee, Ward said. He was listed in serious but stable condition at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, said Steve Rutledge, a hospital spokesman. - Daily News High-speed crash kills motorcyclist PALMDALE - A 30-year-old motorcyclist was killed Friday after losing control on a sharp curve after passing another motorist, authorities said. Steve Joseph Ratzlaff of Palmdale was traveling high speed on his 1989 Suzuki Katana
The original Suzuki Katana was a sports motorcycle produced in the early 1980s at the request of Suzuki Deutschland specifically for their market needs, and on southbound 30th Street West near Avenue P-8, said Deputy David Miklos of the Palmdale sheriff's station. Ratzlaff passed another motorist on the two-lane road, but when he came back into the southbound lane, he was going too fast to negotiate a hairpin turn A hairpin turn (also hairpin bend, hairpin corner, etc.), named for its resemblance to a hairpin/bobby pin, is a bend in a road with a very acute inner angle, making it necessary for an oncoming vehicle to turn almost 180º to continue on the road. posted at 15 mph, Miklos said. He was airlifted to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Miklos said. - Daily News |
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