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Posted on 04/12/2023 8:55:46 AM PDT by Twotone
Two teachers challenging the constitutionality of compelled antiracism training have been ordered to pay nearly $313,000 in their Missouri school district's legal fees, under a ruling their lawyers called "overtly hostile" and "meant to scare off future lawsuits by parents and teachers."
The Southeastern Legal Foundation is appealing U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool's summary judgment in favor of Springfield Public Schools and the six-figure award against their clients Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley, according to an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals notice Friday.
The public interest litigation firm "has never faced attorney fees sanctions for challenging unconstitutional government action at any level" in nearly 50 years of so-called Section 1983 civil rights lawsuits against public officials, SLF Litigation Director Braden Boucek said in a press release.
General Counsel Kimberly Hermann called Harpool, a longtime Democratic elected official in Missouri appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, "a lone agenda-driven federal judge" determined to "deny concerned teachers and parents the right to seek redress in court."
Henderson and Lumley filed the First Amendment compelled- and chilled-speech suit against the district in summer 2021, alleging the "equity training" forces employees to discuss their place on an "oppression matrix," advocate for "changes in political, economic, and social life," and disclose "personal details that they wish to keep private."
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When the predators strike you down at home, move.
Mark Douglas "Doug" Harpool (born June 7, 1956) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He also has been a Democratic American politician, and a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives from southwest Missouri's 134th district. He served five terms from January 5, 1983 to January 6, 1993.
The fix was in.
Unbelievable. Yet there it is.
These “judges” put agenda and dogma waaaay above the ACTUAL law, and the first amendment
Another Bolshevik Barack Obama appointee.
How is this not cruel and unusual punishment by the court?
Murderers don’t get treated this harshly.
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They are not even schools any more. Calling them a school implies that actual education is going on there.
They are government controlled brainwashing/indoctrination centers.
It is why we can no longer count on the courts
The government schools cannot be reformed or cleaned up. The corruption goes to their very core.
The government schools can only be abolished.
Since individual families can’t do that, the only way to protect your children from their perversion is to remove your children from them
Up vote.
Indeed. Nation of law or nation of men (judges)?
This was a foundational principle of our form of government, that we are a nation of laws, and that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights... which this judge by SUMMARY JUDGEMENT ... just ran roughshod over.
No way the 8th circuit upholds this.
Doubtful the ruling will survive an appeal...
“The Eighth Circuit is the most “right” circuit. It is composed overwhelmingly of judges affiliated with the Republican party.”
Remove schools from your post and you get directly to the true root of the problem.
No ballot box left
No jury box left
Soap box got deplatformed
What box is left to check?
Q: How can you be charged with a crime when there is no law violated?
A: Same as Covid.
The communists have no need, any longer, to pay any attention to those trivial issues...
Good serfs have just one rule to live by:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Darkest tyranny is no longer a threat that is "coming"...
It came, settled in, and plans to stay forever...
No. Pay them back in their own coin.
Soap BoxBallot BoxJury Box
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