In February of 2016, Merit, lead counsel for the Plaintiffs, settled a six-year lawsuit he had filed in 2010 in Federal District Court in Honolulu, Hawai’i, against the Honolulu Police Department, on behalf of three police officers (a male Black Sergeant, a male Mexican-American Patrol Officer and a female Caucasian Patrol Officer) for race and gender discrimination.
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February 19, 2016 – HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT
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March 14, 2016 – HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT
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March 16, 2016 – US NEW and WORLD REPORT
By Marina Starleaf Riker, Associated Press