Chrissy Mazzeo’s civil rights case against Gibbons, former Clark County Sheriff Bill Young, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Republican political strategist Sig Rogich was dismissed July 12, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.
Mazzeo is accepting $50,000, said Walter Cannon, the attorney who represented Young and the police department in the lawsuit filed in October 2008.
Cannon called settling a financial decision. The case had been due for trial later this year, but a date had not been set. Cannon said he felt confident Young and the police department would have prevailed, but a four-week trial would have been expensive.
Cannon said his clients agreed to pay $24,999.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/18nnQJI ) that Rogich’s insurance company would pay $25,001.
“I don’t know what happened between Chrissy Mazzeo and the governor,” Cannon said in an interview. “But what happened and what she said happened weren’t the same.”
Mazzeo’s lawyer, Robert Kossack, and attorneys for Gibbons and Rogich didn’t immediately respond Friday to messages from The Associated Press.
Rogich issued a statement confirming the $50,000 figure and noting that Mazzeo initially sought “multiple millions” in damages. He also pointed to professional discipline taken against Kossack by the State Bar of Nevada.
