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The suit was filed this week, in L.A. County Superior Court, after settlement negotiations collapsed between former leasing ford navigator cruise control repair manager Scot Graham ford navigator cruise control repair and the L.A. Unified School District. The school system is paying for Cortines' ford navigator cruise control repair defense, a spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
The complaint, filed Monday, provides the first detailed narrative of Graham's allegations. In it, Graham ford navigator cruise control repair also asserts that Cortines made unwanted advances during his first stint as superintendent in 2000 and that senior staff failed to act when Graham revealed the alleged harassment.
Graham, 56, began working for L.A. Unified in 2000, while Cortines served for six months ford navigator cruise control repair as interim superintendent. Cortines has acknowledged recruiting ford navigator cruise control repair and recommending Graham, a longtime acquaintance, for the real estate division.
In the lawsuit, Graham alleges he didn't have to interview for the job: "Cortines did not require Graham to submit to any of the prerequisites of securing employment at the LAUSD, and violated ford navigator cruise control repair a myriad of LAUSD policies."
Graham asserts that he accepted the invitation to Cortines ranch in 2010 because ford navigator cruise control repair he was "acutely aware that Cortines could eliminate his position at any time or protect him from being laid off. As the primary breadwinner in his marriage, ford navigator cruise control repair Graham could not afford to risk losing his job, so, hoping that Cortines' invitation was strictly professional, Graham reluctantly ford navigator cruise control repair accepted."
Later, Graham alleges that two supervisors failed to report the issue for several weeks after Graham confided in them. Subsequently, L.A. Unified General Counsel David Holmquist allegedly urged him to drop the matter, saying, ford navigator cruise control repair "What is the point of running a man's career… What are you going to accomplish by complaining?" according to the suit.
The district has a different version of events, saying that Graham insisted to his supervisors that the alleged incident should not be acted on, and that officials respected his wishes, while also directing him to report any future possible misconduct. The district said Graham and his husband continued to see Cortines socially after Cortines retired in April 2011.
In March, Graham's attorneys notified L.A. Unified that they intended to file a harassment ford navigator cruise control repair claim. In May, the Board of Education approved a settlement of $200,000 plus lifetime health benefits, valued at $250,000 to $300,000, with Graham, who also agreed to leave his $150,000-a-year job as director of leasing and asset management.
L.A. Unified was not named in the suit, but Graham has submitted a claim for damages to the district, an action that typically ford navigator cruise control repair precedes a lawsuit. Through a spokeswoman, Cortines ford navigator cruise control repair said he had no comment beyond his initial statement in May.
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