Just who runs the City, the damn judge or the City Government? The case should have been thrown out. After the officers were laid off then the suit could be filed.
Maybe there is some arcane technicality about adherence to the union contracts in the occifers’ lawsuit, which the court will be forced to sift through and render a judgment about. But if it’s a frivolous argument, cosmic justice would dictate the union would be dinged for the moneys the city paid out.