Jan. 29--Jury selection begins Monday in U.S. District Court in the discrimination lawsuit filed by an Erie firefighter who lost her job after setting a small fire in a bathtub during a suicide attempt in 2006.
Jurors will be asked to decide whether the city was justified in terminating Mary Wolski from her post in 2007, or whether it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and let her go because of severe depression and not because of the fire, as Wolski claims.
Wolski -- the first female firefighter in the history of the City of Erie when she was hired in 1997 -- wants the city to reinstate her and pay her lost wages.
She sued the city in October 2008.
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