Olathe schools to pay $259K legal fees over former board candidate's free speech claim
The judge’s ruling brings the district’s total spending on the lawsuit a former candidate filed after being kicked out of a school board meeting to over $730,000.
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The judge’s ruling brings the district’s total spending on the lawsuit a former candidate filed after being kicked out of a school board meeting to over $730,000.
“I have found myself in a place that doesn’t uplift. It breaks down,” the board member said.
A woman who wants voters to elect her next week to a seat on the Olathe School Board won part of a federal lawsuit against a current board member and nominal damages of $1.
After four quarters, three hours, and two overtimes, the battle between the Westborough and Marlborough came down to one play.
The board member calls his censure a “planned, coordinated and well orchestrated attempt at character assassination.”