The city will not appeal the discrimination and retaliation case it lost to a pregnant firefight last year.
That means the court case is over. Tampa Fire Rescue will obey a federal judge’s order and re-hire Tanja Vidovic, the firefighter it fired the day after she filed suit in March 2016. The city will also pay the $245,000 in damages the jury awarded her in December.
By dropping the appeal, the city will also stop paying the legal bills this case has racked up. The city has already spent $300,000 defending itself, and will still have to pay whatever legal costs a judge awards to Vidovic.
Vidovic said she was relieved that litigation is over.
"I am happy to hear the City decided not to appeal," she said in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times. "I have been overwhelmed with the support that a vast number of community members have shown me.