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MAY 21, 2019 - Judge Orders Antifa Activist Yvette Felarca to Pay Judicial Watch Legal Fees [tr]..
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Posted on 07/03/2019 10:02:50 AM PDT by OfficialJudicialWatch

(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced that a U.S. District Judge in California awarded Judicial Watch $22,000 in legal fees in a case filed by an Antifa organizer in an effort to block Judicial Watch from obtaining information about her activities.

Yvette Felarca, a middle school teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), and two co-plaintiffs were ordered to pay Judicial Watch $22,000 in attorney’s fees and $4,000 in litigation costs. Felarca had sued the BUSD in federal court to keep the school district from fulfilling its legal obligation to provide Judicial Watch with records of their communications mentioning: Felarca, Antifa, and/or BAMN. Judicial Watch also asked for Felarca’s personnel file.

Felarca is a prominent figure in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), a group founded by the Marxist Revolutionary Workers League that protests conservative speaking engagements. In 2016, Felarca and two of her allies were arrested and charged with several crimes, including felony assault, for inciting a riot in Sacramento. Earlier this year, Felarca was ordered to stand trial for assault.

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, Northern District of California, who had previously ruled that Felarca’s lawsuit was “entirely frivolous,” wrote in his ruling awarding legal fees to Judicial Watch that Felarca and her co-plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims were “premised on the obviously baseless assumption” that the First Amendment condemns the speech of some while condoning the ideological missions of others.

Judge Chhabria added that “The plaintiffs also mischaracterized the documents under review” and that the plaintiffs “failed to grapple with the role Ms. Felarca played in making herself a topic of public discourse through her physical conduct at public rallies and her voluntary appearance on Fox News.”

(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antifa; bamn; judicialwatch; jw; jwantifa; yvettefelarca

1 posted on 07/03/2019 10:02:50 AM PDT by OfficialJudicialWatch
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

Good job. Keep at them


2 posted on 07/03/2019 10:04:56 AM PDT by enraged
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

Six week old information.


3 posted on 07/03/2019 10:06:36 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

Judicial Watch.

It’s what having a political party would look like.


4 posted on 07/03/2019 10:07:33 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

Little rodent needs exterminating, for a better America.

5 posted on 07/03/2019 10:08:49 AM PDT by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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6 posted on 07/03/2019 10:11:15 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

Bttt.

5.56mm


7 posted on 07/03/2019 10:11:58 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Boogieman

+1


8 posted on 07/03/2019 10:15:24 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

And yet she continues in a teaching position in California???


9 posted on 07/03/2019 11:07:28 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

Common communist tactic on display.

Felarca tries to suppress any documentation of her activities, claiming her privacy would be violated.

But she engaged in said activities on the street, in full view of numerous news cameras.
Privacy indeed.

Let’s never forget, these creeps who wrap themselves in the 1A fully intend to seize power & tear up the entire Constitution, on the grounds it was written by white men who owned slaves.

Claiming 1A protections for themselves, while denying same to their opponents (us) is only the first step.


10 posted on 07/03/2019 11:10:14 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: csvset

Amen! In a just World she would be decorating a lamp pole on the end of a rope.


11 posted on 07/03/2019 11:12:04 AM PDT by sport
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To: Midwesterner53

Would probably serve to embellish here resume with the folks that hired her.


12 posted on 07/03/2019 11:13:29 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

bttt


13 posted on 07/03/2019 11:18:37 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait.)
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To: Boogieman

That was great.


14 posted on 07/03/2019 11:35:45 AM PDT by AlanSC
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch
...co-plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims were “premised on the obviously baseless assumption” that the First Amendment condemns the speech of some while condoning the ideological missions of others...well said....
15 posted on 07/03/2019 11:36:40 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: marktwain

better late than never


16 posted on 07/03/2019 4:49:31 PM PDT by Postman (The flies seek our domestic enemies.....but ain't no flies on DJT....MAGA)
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