‘Resounding Victory for Freedom of Speech’

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125 K, Job reinstatement, Bullcrap negative records wiped, removal of all the school's public posts about it.

Not bad, not bad at all. Finally, sanity is returning.


https://www.theblaze.com/news/travis-bla...settlement?

"The truth is your son watched my daughter and multiple other girls change in the locker room. While he got a free show, they got violated," Travis Allen said in the post, according to the lawsuit.

The transgender student, a week after the locker room incident, reportedly said "I'm going to f****** kill Blake Allen," the lawsuit also alleged.
"The Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust made the decision concerning the payment in order to cap defense expenses in what would otherwise be years of litigation," Orange Southwest Supervisory District Superintendent Layne Millington said, as the Herald reported.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/01/v...s-student/

That settlement requires that the Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust pay $125,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees and costs to Travis Allen and Jessica Allen, on behalf of their daughter, Blake Allen, and their attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom.


Under the settlement, the district will reinstate Travis Allen, the father, as middle school soccer coach, and will scrub any records of discipline against Travis Allen and daughter Blake from school records.

Further, the settlement requires the Orange Southwest School District Board and school officials named in the Allens’ lawsuit to remove any content posted online by the school related to the locker room business as well as from the bulletin board or boards at Randolph Union Middle/High School displaying “love and support” messages to the trans-identifying student.

The Alliance Defending Freedom hailed the settlement as a huge win for the Allen family.

“The settlement of Blake and Travis Allen’s case is a resounding victory for freedom of speech,” Phil Sechler, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Signal on Thursday.

“Calling a male a male shouldn’t have cost Travis his job and gotten Blake kicked out of school,” he added. “We are very glad that the school agreed to do the right thing by giving Travis his coaching job back and dropping the discipline against Blake. Everyone has the right to speak freely, and we are grateful that this settlement further protects that right.”