ALBANY – A town court clerk was fired for allowing a backlog of traffic tickets to get out of control and not, as she maintained, because of her age and the leave she took for knee replacement surgery, a federal judge ruled.
Northern District Judge Mae D’Agostino (See Profile) dismissed Sonya Lehtinen’s discrimination claim against the Town of Greenport in Columbia County, finding that the town presented valid justification for her dismissal while she was recuperating from surgery under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
