I don’t know how to categorize this lawsuit. “Civil rights?” Not quite. Maybe I need to establish a new category:”Service dog harassment?”<\/p>\n
Whatever. Here’s the story in the Daily News, by John Marzulli<\/a>, who’s getting around a lot (although I will point out that my previous blog about the cops sued for a false stop and search claim and this one about the harassed service dog were both filed in the Eastern District [Brooklyn] federal court, which John M. covers.)<\/p>\n It begins:<\/p>\n New York City Transit is paying $150,000 to a Manhattan woman who claimed in a federal lawsuit she and her massive service dog were constantly hounded on buses and in subway stations, the Daily News has learned.<\/em><\/p>\n Estelle Stamm cited 32 incidents between 1998 and 2004 in which she was stopped by a bus driver, subway motorman or conductor demanding to see identification for her 120-pound livestock guardian dog Wargas.<\/em><\/p>\n Stamm, 70, suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and partial hearing loss, which made traveling with Wargas a necessity, according to her 2004 lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t know how to categorize this lawsuit. “Civil rights?” Not quite. Maybe I need to establish a new category:”Service dog harassment?” Whatever. Here’s the story in the Daily News, by John Marzulli, who’s getting around a lot (although I … Continue reading