Armenian Police Officers Can Sue Glendale for Discrimination, Judge Says

11:15, June 26, 2012

By Veronica Rocha

Four current and a former Glendale Armenian American police officers can move forward with their federal discrimination and harassment lawsuit against the city after a judge last week refused to throw out the claims.

U.S. District Court Judge Josephine Tucker denied most of the city's motion to throw out the claims, although some that were filed against certain police commanders were dropped.

"We were confident that the ruling would occur as it has," the officers' attorney Carney Shegerian said in an email. "The defendants have no real defenses to the allegations in our complaint — they are all true and will be proven as such at trial."  Read more... (422 words)

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