(l-r) Neil Eggleston and Sarahi Constantine Padilla, of Kirkland & Ellis, Harvard Law Professor Ronald Sullivan Jr., and Harvard Law Professor Intisar Rabb. Courtesy photos
In May 2008, the Buffalo Police Department fired Cariol Horne just months shy of her pension for 20 years of service vesting after she intervened when a fellow officer applied a chokehold to an unarmed Black man.
This week a litigation team led by lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis and Harvard Law School won a ruling from a state court judge in New York awarding Horne back pay and benefits that she had previously been denied in another legal challenge to her firing more than a decade ago.
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