This was the first damages paid to a woman in the U.S. after wrongfully being charged for being topless. Krokos was playing Frisbee in her front yard with her fiance and took her top off after she got warm, she says. Denver civil rights attorney David Lane, who has experience in the subject area, helped secure the settlement based on another ruling dealing with the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

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