A federal court has thrown out a former Roswell police officer’s lawsuit accusing the city of wrongful termination after he was injured in a motorcycle crash.
U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May made the decision regarding David Booth earlier this month, according to a court document the city released Wednesday.
It’s unclear why the lawsuit was dismissed.
According to Roswell police, Booth was a 15-year veteran with the department when he was critically injured on his way home from a side job working as a funeral escort in February 2014.
He was hit from behind in the crash and flown to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he initially had three surgeries, police said on Facebook.
He ended up with a partially paralyzed right hand, but doctors cleared him to return to work, according to Channel 2 Action News.
He was fired in February 2016 after returning to work in “a lighter duty capacity,” he told the news station.
It’s unclear how long he worked before his termination.
The city cited five policy violations, including parking his car behind a building during his shift, failing to respond to a call and, in one case, leaving his police gun at home, Channel 2 reported.
Booth contended the violations were not severe enough to lead to his termination.
“The only thing that made me an undesirable employee is that I'm essentially one-and-a-half handed,” he told Channel 2 last year.
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