Yvette Felarca, a middle school teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District, 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 us with records of their communications mentioning: Felarca, Antifa, and/or BAMN. We also asked for Felarca's personnel file.
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 us 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's order also states that "a significant portion of the documents the plaintiffs initially sued to protect from disclosure had been publicly disclosed months earlier in another suit brought by Ms. Felarca against BUSD, where she was represented by the same counsel. The plaintiffs had no reasonable argument to protect those documents from disclosure."
Along with Felarca's $20,000 payment, co-plaintiffs Lori Nixon and Larry Stefl were ordered by Judge Chhabria to pay us $1,000 each request seeking public records information about Felarca's Antifa activism and its effect within the Berkeley Unified School District.
In her lawsuit aimed at keeping the Berkeley school district from furnishing the records, Felarca alleged that we were misusing the law for political means and the district should refuse to provide the information.
In January 2018, a separate judge ordered Felarca to pay more than $11,000 in attorney and court fees for her frivolous attempt to get a restraining order against Troy Worden, the former head of the University of California Berkeley College Republicans.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/jw-uncovers-fbi-knew-of-hillarys-abuses/
Felarca had sued the BUSD in federal court to keep the school district from fulfilling its legal obligation to provide us with records of their communications mentioning: Felarca, Antifa, and/or BAMN. We also asked for Felarca's personnel file.
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 us 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's order also states that "a significant portion of the documents the plaintiffs initially sued to protect from disclosure had been publicly disclosed months earlier in another suit brought by Ms. Felarca against BUSD, where she was represented by the same counsel. The plaintiffs had no reasonable argument to protect those documents from disclosure."
Along with Felarca's $20,000 payment, co-plaintiffs Lori Nixon and Larry Stefl were ordered by Judge Chhabria to pay us $1,000 each request seeking public records information about Felarca's Antifa activism and its effect within the Berkeley Unified School District.
In her lawsuit aimed at keeping the Berkeley school district from furnishing the records, Felarca alleged that we were misusing the law for political means and the district should refuse to provide the information.
In January 2018, a separate judge ordered Felarca to pay more than $11,000 in attorney and court fees for her frivolous attempt to get a restraining order against Troy Worden, the former head of the University of California Berkeley College Republicans.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/jw-uncovers-fbi-knew-of-hillarys-abuses/
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