Another lowercase judge™ in the news with the Always Clueless Lawyers making Asses of themselves.
June 11, 2008 - U.S. District judge Stanwood Duval Jr. said he has drafted a ruling that favors the ACLU Board its lawsuit over a teacher’s prayer during a public high school’s graduation. It is the one of seven cases the ACLU has filed against the same Louisiana school district.
But the judge agreed to wait until at least June 28 to issue that opinion so a settlement could be negotiated, including an agreement for the school board to pay for the ACLU’s attorneys fees, court records show.AND,
The case was the sixth of seven lawsuits that the ACLU of Louisiana has filed against the Tangipahoa Parish School Board since 1994, according to ACLU attorney Katie Schwartzmann. The ACLU also has sued the school board over prayers in the classrooms, at school board meetings and at footbal l games and over the distribution of Bibles on school property.School board attorney Christopher Moody suggested that the ACLU is unfairly singling out Tangipahoa Parish because most, if not all, of its cases against the school board are based on complaints from the same family, whose names aren’t identified in court papers
The teacher was filling in for an absent student when he gave the invocation and remarks were not prepared.
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TT - Coercing the school district to pay the ACLU fees is lowercase judge™ U.S. District judge Stanwood Duval Jr.. Wikipedia entry
WWLT said Bobby Jindal's campaign literature referred to Duval as a 'left-wing' jurist" without actually naming Duval. Jindal was elected Governor of Louisiana. And that's kinda remarkable considering Duval's rulings on Katrina.
(We haven't actually copyrighted lowercase judge, but lowercase judges are undeserving of the honorific capitalization of their title. They do not honor the law. )
