Individual board members, principals, administrators, etc. don’t worry about you getting injunctive relief. No personal loss, years to get, etc.
Ask for a few million, go personal against the individual board members, principals, administrators, etc.as well as against the district, as they “exceeded their legal authority,” move to sever their defense from that of the districts as they may have opposing interests, etc.
Then they have to pay their own lawyers, who tell them “....well, you never know what a jury that thinks school taxes are too high and the schools are indiscipline's and out of control are going to do.....”
Then they settle for a sealed $25,000 per student paid out in four years to help with college... and loads of $ to the lawyer of record.... and they settle before lunch!
I may not know much case law in the state systems, but I pound on the table just fine... and when not enjoined by some anti-first ammemdment judge, I give better interviews than Jessie Jackson ever did on his best day!
I used to study Old Racehorse Haynes in Houston and Jim Bob Brown up in Canyon, Near Amarillo.
When ever they tried a capitol case or a plaintif’s claim for more than $10,000,000, every lawyer within 100 miles was there, becase “The School Was About To Be In.” There were no motel rooms availavle so every small camper in town was rented as a combination sleepin working place.
Public entities in California are required by statute to indemnify public employees for attorney fees and damages incurred within the course and scope of their employment, unless it involved a willful AND malicious tort, in which case MAYBE they won’t be indemnified. So severance doesn’t work.
It’s like an insurance company defending an insured under a reservation of rights clause, only insurance companies aren’t generous and California public entities are. AFAIK, public entity employers here always, always, eat the defense fees, and only rarely seek reimbursement from public employee defendants for damages involving willful and malicious torts by the employee.
And California public entities are allowed to indemnify their employees for punitive damages awards incurred within the course and scope of their employment. They are less generous in that regard, with many exceptions. Steve Yagman in L.A. lost a federal action challenging the City of L.A.’s blanket policy of always indemnifying police officers for punitive damages awards in excessive force cases.