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LAWSUIT: Former Sussex Home Depot Employee Says He Was Fired After Heart Attack LAWSUIT: Former Sussex Home Depot Employee Says He Was Fired After Heart Attack
Lawsuit: Former Sussex Home Depot Employee Says He Was Fired After Heart Attack A man who worked at a Sussex County Home Depot for more than two decades has filed a lawsuit against his former employer saying that the home improvement chain fired him after he suffered from a heart attack and had to return to work on light duty, reports say. Anthony Lepore, 57, had worked for the company since 1997 but was fired from the Newton location last September, three months after suffering a heart attack that kept him out of work for one week following a subsequent surgery, NJ.com reports. The suit --  filed in Hudson County Superior Court on Feb. 13 -- alleges that Hom…