A lawyer has alleged the American Civil Liberties Union’s Southern California chapter discriminated against him for his political beliefs when he was fired from an interim executive director position, in a complaint filed in Los Angeles state court.
Francis John Broccolo, a former head of the pro bono program at Sidley Austin LLP’s LA office, said the ACLU of Southern California’s board, as well as its local foundation board, in 2023 coaxed him out of a retirement spurred by his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis to lead the organization’s Southern California chapter.
But the ACLU local boards abruptly dropped him from the ...
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