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Former Red Bank Police Chief Larry Sneed will accept a $225,000 settlement from the city, his attorney said Wednesday, ending a four-year legal battle that began with Sneed's firing in 2010.
Red Bank city commissioners voted unanimously to approve the settlement at a meeting Wednesday night. The proposal came after a Tennessee Supreme Court decision in December that would have sent Sneed's case to trial in Chancery Court.
The city had argued that under the Tennessee Tort Liability Act, the case wasn't eligible for a jury trial.
"This is a compromise by all sides, and we feel it's in his best interest to accept it and move on," Sneed's attorney, Lee Davis, said Wednesday.
Sneed's $1.5 million suit against the city alleged, among other things, that he was fired by then-City Manager Chris Dorsey as a result of age discrimination and whistle-blower retribution. The city's settlement proposal doesn't admit any wrongdoing.
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