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Council to weigh settlement of $20,000 in T-shirts arrest By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News Published January 3, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. A woman who claimed that she was wrongfully arrested for selling T-shirts emblazoned with Rocktober outside Coors Field during the 2007 World Series may receive a $20,000 settlement from the city of Denver. Christina Eyre was selling the T-shirts Oct. 27, 2007, when a lawyer from Major League Baseball and police Detective Nick Rogers walked up and told her she was selling counterfeit goods, said David Lane, Eyre's attorney. Eyre, who lives in Denver, told the pair that she copyrighted the word Rocktober on Oct. 3, 2007 - the phrase appeared in the Rocky Mountain News at least three times that day - and showed them a copyright registration and a peddler's license, court documents said. Eyre also told them that her attorney was negotiating with the league and the Rockies to sell them the copyright, the documents said. Lane said that the league's lawyer and Rogers demanded that she stop selling the T-shirts. When Eyre refused, "The lawyer said, 'Arrest her,' so the cop slaps the cuffs on her," Lane said. "She says, 'Can I have your business card, officer?' He says, 'You want to play that way?' and clamps the cuffs down, where she has nerve damage in her thumb now." Luis Corchado, an assistant director in the litigation section of the city attorney's office, said "the parties disagree on some of the important facts but reached a mutual compromise to resolve the case." Neither Rogers nor a spokesperson for the Colorado Rockies could be reached for comment late Friday. The city attorney's office is recommending that Eyre be paid $20,000 to settle the case. The City Council will consider the proposed settlement Monday. Eyre received a separate financial settlement from the Rockies and Major League Baseball, court documents said. That settlement, which is confidential, clears the Rockies and the league of "any unlawful or improper conduct," the documents said. Subscribe to the Rocky Mountain News Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group © 2009 The E.W. Scripps Co.