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Judge threatens parents with massive penalties for challenging school antiracism dogma: lawyers
Just the News ^ | April 10, 2023 | Greg Piper

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 93to5; antiracism; arth; byanymeansnecessary; douglasharpool; doxthejudge; education; missouri; obamajudge; obamastooge; odiousbamajudge; partisanhack; penalties; wdmissouri
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1 posted on 04/12/2023 8:55:46 AM PDT by Twotone
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When the predators strike you down at home, move.


2 posted on 04/12/2023 8:58:50 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Twotone
A Democrat, and an Obama stooge:

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.

3 posted on 04/12/2023 8:59:09 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Twotone

Unbelievable. Yet there it is.

These “judges” put agenda and dogma waaaay above the ACTUAL law, and the first amendment


4 posted on 04/12/2023 8:59:21 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Twotone

Another Bolshevik Barack Obama appointee.


5 posted on 04/12/2023 9:01:45 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Blueflag

How is this not cruel and unusual punishment by the court?

Murderers don’t get treated this harshly.


6 posted on 04/12/2023 9:05:25 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Twotone
Harpool, a longtime Democratic elected official in Missouri appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama

< spit >10

7 posted on 04/12/2023 9:09:51 AM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: Twotone; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AbolishCSEU; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

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.

8 posted on 04/12/2023 9:10:43 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Blueflag

It is why we can no longer count on the courts


9 posted on 04/12/2023 9:11:19 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Twotone

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


10 posted on 04/12/2023 9:13:23 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Up vote.


11 posted on 04/12/2023 9:13:58 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Nifster

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.


12 posted on 04/12/2023 9:16:22 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Gene Eric

No way the 8th circuit upholds this.


13 posted on 04/12/2023 9:24:58 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Twotone

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.”


14 posted on 04/12/2023 9:25:50 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: NorthMountain

Remove schools from your post and you get directly to the true root of the problem.


15 posted on 04/12/2023 9:29:11 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Nifster

No ballot box left
No jury box left
Soap box got deplatformed
What box is left to check?


16 posted on 04/12/2023 9:39:55 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Twotone

Q: How can you be charged with a crime when there is no law violated?
A: Same as Covid.


17 posted on 04/12/2023 9:40:24 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Twotone
Just more proof that minor things like the Constitution and the election process no longer matter...

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...

18 posted on 04/12/2023 9:54:15 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Gene Eric

No. Pay them back in their own coin.


19 posted on 04/12/2023 10:09:20 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Nifster
It is why we can no longer count on the courts

Soap Box
Ballot Box
Jury Box

20 posted on 04/12/2023 10:13:39 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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