A federal judge in Lynchburg has thrown out several claims against individual defendants in a lawsuit filed by a sitting Lynchburg City Councilor, while upholding other claims that his First
A Lynchburg-area attorney has had her law license revoked for embezzling at least $23,000 from accounts at the firm she worked at and lying about a real estate transaction.
A Lynchburg fire captain who has been criticized in recent months for posting controversial political cartoons on his Facebook page has filed a lawsuit against the city and multiple individual officials, alleging they violated his rights to free speech and religion.
The complaint was filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court by Lynchburg Fire Department Capt. Marty Misjuns in late March. The city, fire department, interim city manager, mayor and vice mayor are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims the city took adverse employment action against Misjuns because of political cartoons he reposted on his Facebook page. The cartoons, which local LGBTQ organizations and transgender members of the Lynchburg community said were transphobic, were posted in late January and included caricaturized illustrations of transgender women that leaned heavily on stereotypes.