A federal judge has dismissed a suit in federal court filed by the family of a fire cadet who died in a "live burn" exercise in Baltimore in 2007.
Judge Benson Everett Legg ruled Friday that 29-year-old cadet Racheal Wilson could have refused to take part in the exercise. He said the exercise does not create grounds for a federal civil rights suit.
The family’s $15 million lawsuit was filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court in February, but it was moved to federal court at the defendants’ request.
Legg noted Wilson’s family and estate still have rights under workers’ compensation law and other areas. But Legg declined to keep those claims in federal court.
