Frank Mallory Shooster's Legal Cases (6)

Employment and labor

Chapman v. Florida Dept of Children and Families

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OUTCOME: Victory for Chapman

Whistleblower case by state attorney fired just one month after receiving award by employer as best attorney in her field after corroborating allegations of workplace illegalities in statement given by ... her to the agency internal affairs unit. In retaliation for her whistleblower complaint, the state suborned false affidavits from 14 co-workers accusing her of "practicing witchcraft" sexual harassment, sabotaging a case, abusing her staff and dishonesty. After a five week trial, the jury her damage request to the penny. Post-trial the court added front pay and attorneys fees for a judgment in excess of $1.5 million, which was upheld on appeal.

Civil rights

American Atheists, Inc et al v. City of Starke Florida

N/A

OUTCOME: Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs

Action to have lighted Cross removed from the top of a City-owned water tower

Civil rights

Society of St. Pius X v. Our Lady of Fatima

N/A

OUTCOME: Complete transfer of control to St. Pius

Action by religious group to oust parent organization alleging failure to adhere to the Tridentine (Latin) Mass as required by deed transferring property to St. Pius

Personal injury

Bello v. Archdiocese of Miami

N/A

OUTCOME: Confiidential settlement

Action against a priest who failed to attach brake light to trailer causing passenger of vehicle behind him to become paralyzed when priest stopped short in the center lane of I-95 after losing the tr ... ead on his tire.

Personal injury

Sanchez v. Lawless

N/A

OUTCOME: Settlement for $1.75m

Action by man who sustained crushed vertebra and became suicidal when his vehicle was struck by a drunnk driver. More important than the money, we managed to have him admiitted to UM Jackson to repla ... ce the vertebra and the discs above and below after exhausting his insurance . Tne neurosurgeon invited me to watch the entire eight hour operation

Employment and labor

Bialick v. Florida Ofifice of the Auditor General

N/A

OUTCOME: Settled for $650,000

Action by three Jewish emplloyees subjected to barrage of daily slurs, incluidng a supervisor's cartoon depicting his Jewish employees as cows on the way to a slaughter house

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