"He testified that dock duty did not require him to perform any safety-sensitive duties, such as driving the ferry, conducting lifeboat drills, mooring or tracking weather patterns".
"He stated that there is nothing for him to do while he is on dock duty and he spends his shift just sitting in the ferry office," Judge Miller wrote of Mr. Sander.
In 1899, a second stand was added along part of the Gordon Road side of the ground, reportedly built by off-duty dock workers in exchange for beer and cigarettes.
The department could fire them, assign to permanent desk duty or dock them vacation days.
"These days, the fleets go for squid or bottom-bouncing for flounder," said Rich Pirro of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, who was on duty on the dock at the East End Seaport Museum & Marine Foundation, in the former Long Island Rail Road station.
Not explained in any of the testimony excerpted in Judge Miller's decision is why Mr. Sander had been removed from ferry duty and confined to the dock.
Thanks to a massive range of docks that do double duty as chargers and external speakers, the iPod can also be transformed into a more sociable audio companion.
It comes in five different colors, costs $55, and pulls double duty as both a backup battery and dock for your iPhone or iPod touch.
Instead of paying the full duties, importers simply abandoned their containers on the docks.
In his stand against the dictatorial regime of King Mswati II, Thulani Maseko read from the dock: "When freedom is taken away, it becomes the onerous and supreme duty of men to reclaim it from the oppressor.
