Quote:(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.”
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. (See generally Felarca v. Berkeley Unified School District, No. 3:16-cv-06184-RS). The plaintiffs, therefore, 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 Judicial Watch $1,000 each (Yvette Felarca, et al., v. Berekely Unified School District, et al. (No. 3:17-cv-06282-VC)).
“Judicial Watch is entitled to attorney’s fees because the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was frivolous, and their litigation conduct was unreasonable,” Judge Chhabria wrote in his order.
Additionally, Judge Chhabria’s order holds the plaintiffs “jointly and severally liable” to pay Judicial Watch $4,000 in litigation expenses.
In 2017, Judicial Watch filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) 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 Judicial Watch was 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 (UC) Berkeley College Republicans.
“This is a huge victory for Judicial Watch against Antifa and the violent left,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Ms. Felarca attacked Judicial Watch without basis and the court was right to reject her ploy to deny our ‘right to know’ because we don’t share her violent left views.”
Quote: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.....
her employment status will make it easy to obtain a garnishment and collect on the judgment.
Quote: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. (See generally Felarca v. Berkeley Unified School District, No. 3:16-cv-06184-RS). The plaintiffs, therefore, had no reasonable argument to protect those documents from disclosure.”
Possible Rule-11 sanctions headed towards that lawyer. Here’s hoping.
(05-21-2019 07:30 PM)Kronke Wrote: She'll crowdfund it.
Just a question - sorry for the thread jack. You truly a Tulsi supporter?
For the primary — yes. Among other things (against interventionist wars, would pardon Snowden & Assange, in favor of UBI), this clip sealed it for me. An issue that cuts in her favor and she could easily ignore for political gain, but she obviously has principles. And she gets it.
Beyond the primary, like Trump is handling the censorship/deplatforming/unpersoning of his supporters, I’m monitoring who I’ll be voting for in the general very closely. We’ll see what happens!
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2019 01:46 AM by Kronke.)
(05-21-2019 07:30 PM)Kronke Wrote: She'll crowdfund it.
Just a question - sorry for the thread jack. You truly a Tulsi supporter?
For the primary — yes. Among other things (against interventionist wars, would pardon Snowden & Assange, in favor of UBI), this clip sealed it for me. An issue that cuts in her favor and she could easily ignore for political gain, but she obviously has principles. And she gets it.
Beyond the primary, like Trump is handling the censorship/deplatforming/unpersoning of his supporters, I’m monitoring who I’ll be voting for in the general very closely. We’ll see what happens!
Thank you for posting this clip. You've just earned a convert for Tulsi Gabbard.
I've never had a twitter account and just deactivated my FB account. I also removed the Texas Hold Em game from my PC. So now I come here. You guys need to step up your game to keep me engaged.
(05-21-2019 07:30 PM)Kronke Wrote: She'll crowdfund it.
Just a question - sorry for the thread jack. You truly a Tulsi supporter?
For the primary — yes. Among other things (against interventionist wars, would pardon Snowden & Assange, in favor of UBI), this clip sealed it for me. An issue that cuts in her favor and she could easily ignore for political gain, but she obviously has principles. And she gets it.
Beyond the primary, like Trump is handling the censorship/deplatforming/unpersoning of his supporters, I’m monitoring who I’ll be voting for in the general very closely. We’ll see what happens!
Thank you for posting this clip. You've just earned a convert for Tulsi Gabbard.
Wait, she's a democrat? She's easy on the eyes. Most mainstream voters won't give her props for appearing on a Joe Rogan podcast you know.
She's very down to Earth and seems normal. I'd almost consider voting for her, except she's a Democrat and I've sworn them off until such a time as they openly distance their party from the left (aint gonna happen).
She is very easy on the eyes and I like her voice.
Tulsi just might be un-crazy enough that I would register as a democrat to vote for her in the primary. I've done it for Hillary twice, in 2008 and 2016. If Hillary gets in, I would do that again. Hillary is a thoroughly despicable human being, but that doesn't keep her from being light years better than anyone else in the democrat field. Other than the despicable human being part, I might feel that way about Tulsi by primary time, except I don't think she can win the nomination.
As of right now, every democrat in the field has issue positions that are show stoppers for me. But Tulsi could get pushed far enough to the right in the primaries to shed or modify hers. Just not sure if I would trust that.
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2019 10:45 AM by Owl 69/70/75.)
(05-22-2019 08:24 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Tulsi just might be un-crazy enough that I would register as a democrat to vote for her in the primary. I've done it for Hillary twice, in 2008 and 2016. If Hillary gets in, I would do that again. Hillary is a thoroughly despicable human being, but that doesn't keep her from being light years better than anyone else in the democrat field. Other than the despicable human being part, I might feel that way about Tulsi by primary time, except I don't think she can win the nomination.
As of right now, every democrat in the field has issue positions that are show stoppers for me. But Tulsi could get pushed far enough to the right in the primaries to shed or modify hers. Just not sure if I would trust that.
Wait, you're worried that a politician might lie to get a vote?
(05-22-2019 08:24 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Tulsi just might be un-crazy enough that I would register as a democrat to vote for her in the primary. I've done it for Hillary twice, in 2008 and 2016. If Hillary gets in, I would do that again. Hillary is a thoroughly despicable human being, but that doesn't keep her from being light years better than anyone else in the democrat field. Other than the despicable human being part, I might feel that way about Tulsi by primary time, except I don't think she can win the nomination.
As of right now, every democrat in the field has issue positions that are show stoppers for me. But Tulsi could get pushed far enough to the right in the primaries to shed or modify hers. Just not sure if I would trust that.
Wait, you're worried that a politician might lie to get a vote?
Not worried, just know it to be a fact. So I never trust them. That way, I don't get disappointed.
To my way of thinking, republicans promise things but don't do them. I hope and pray that democrats don't carry out their promises.
(05-23-2019 08:24 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Who? You'd think a card carrying member of Antifa such as myself would know this person.
You're definitely alt-left in your views, but I don't think we've ever accused you of being antifa.
She runs BAMN (by any means necessary), an antifa terror org. Whenever all that street violence was going on in berkeley, she was always out there agitating, calling for violence, etc. The sad thing is that she's an elementary school teacher by trade.
(This post was last modified: 05-23-2019 12:25 PM by Kronke.)
(05-23-2019 08:24 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Who? You'd think a card carrying member of Antifa such as myself would know this person.
You're definitely alt-left in your views, but I don't think we've ever accused you of being antifa.
She runs BAMN (by any means necessary), an antifa terror org. Whenever all that street violence was going on in berkeley, she was always out there agitating, calling for violence, etc. The sad thing is that she's an elementary school teacher by trade.
That woman is crazy, and she would have been removed from almost any other school district in the Country over her promoting violence...but she is in the Bezerkly district....so she is safe.
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[NEWS] Judge Orders Antifa Activist Yvette Felarca to Pay Judicial Watch Legal Fees
