Shortly after Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell (R) announced plans last June to remove a board member of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, the group found itself in a sticky situation.
Dennis Martire, the now-former board member, sued the airports authority and the governor and challenged his removal in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Thanks to an indemnification policy requiring the authority to pay board members’ attorney fees, the authority was suddenly not only on the hook for its own legal bills, but Martire’s and any other board member pulled into the case as well.
