[traditional1]

As in ALL the cases of wrongful termination, I believe THE INDIVIDUAL who did the firing should pay the damages OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKET. This scam of fleecing taxpayers/consumers from the Deep Pockets' target will never end.

He should not have been fired at all, exercising his Free Speech, but somehow the Taxpayer gives the guy $25K AND his job, because a higher-up wrongfully fired him....let the guy who fired him PAY.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I think the transit authority calculated this “forgive and forget all” to be cheaper than the cost of a full blown lawsuit before a local jury that probably would be sympathetic to the Koran burner, specially since it looks like the burning was done off the job.