Criminals Gonna Criminal.
Join us at 12 p.m. Monday, May 13, in Placentia, California, to tell EVERY school district + "health care agency" + government official WE. WILL NOT. COMPLY.
Parent plaintiffs announce appeal of OC judge’s ruling allowing school districts to discriminate against and abuse students with impunity during “health emergencies”
WHAT: Press conference on Monday, May 13, at the Placentia Yorba-Linda Unified School Board where plaintiffs Chris Palicke and his son Aidan, their attorneys FACTS LAW TRUTH JUSTICE, non-profit supporter Free Now Foundation, and California parents will announce the Palickes’ appeal of the latest ruling in their lawsuit against the Placentia Yorba-Linda Unified School District and its elected officials and hired agents arising from its illegal, discriminatory, dangerous COVID-19 mask policies.
WHEN: Monday, May 13, 2024 at 12:30* p.m. PST.
*Please arrive at 12 p.m. noon so we can be ready to go by the time it starts at 12:30 p.m. sharp.
WHO:
· Chris Palicke: plaintiff against PYLUSD whose son Aidan was subjected to discrimination and abuse.
· Nicole C. Pearson: attorney for the Palickes, principal at medical-freedom law firm Facts Law Truth Justice.
· Rita Barnett-Rose: attorney for the Palickes, at medical freedom law firm Facts Law Truth Justice.
· Leandra Blades: current PYLUSD Board President.
· Maggie Uvalle: PYLUSD parent.
WHERE: 1301 E. Orangethorpe Ave, Placentia, CA 92870.
WHY: Plaintiffs have uncontroverted evidence showing that the Palicke’s son Aidan — and similarly situated students, including those with special needs and medical exemptions — was subjected to unlawful, damaging harassment and discrimination by elected Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District officials and faculty and staff. If Orange County Superior Court Judge Deborah Servino’s ruling is allowed to stand, she will have set a baleful precedent that will be use to justify future brutal, illegal “health emergency” policies.
DETAILS:
On April 17, 2024 — after two years of litigation — Orange County Superior Court Judge Deborah Servino suddenly nullified her prior rulings in favor of plaintiffs to rule that (1) defendants Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District and all named school officials were immune from liability for violating students’ constitutional and civil rights because they were “just enforcing [health] orders” and (2) none of the officials’ abusive actions were in practice at the time of her ruling in 2024, therefore, plaintiffs’ claims are “moot,” and they are no longer entitled to judicial relief.
What makes the ruling incredible is that the plaintiffs’ evidence directly contradicted it.
Specifically, plaintiffs proved that defendants did not take any official action in deciding to ban mesh masks mid-year. Instead, it was the invalid “decree” of one ideologically extreme board member – former defendant Carrie Buck – who conspired with former Superintendent, defendant Jim Elsasser, to start banning mesh masks in order to punish conservative students or students whose parents were vocal in opposing various COVID-19 measures at the school. Plaintiffs also proved that District teachers and officials enforced the Buck-Elsasser policy selectively against certain disfavored students, while allowing favored students to wear any mask or no mask at all, and that defendants Buck and Elsasser prevented any other board member from enacting measures to stop the chaos and division the policy immediately created throughout the district.
One student specifically targeted by this policy was plaintiff Aidan Palicke, whose family filed a lawsuit after he was permanently removed from Yorba Linda High School for wearing a mesh mask. Aidan – a respectful, conservative, academically and athletically-gifted student and Captain of the track team – was targeted daily after the Buck-Elsasser policy was announced. He was sent to the principal’s office, harassed and bullied by students and teachers, forced to take his finals outside in 40 degree weather, barred from campus, and, ultimately, forced into remote independent study against his wishes.
The Palickes filed suit in March of 2022, consuming significant family savings to seek justice for children persecuted by PYLUSD and its agents. Their lawsuit alleged that PYLUSD officials violated these students’ constitutional rights to privacy, bodily autonomy and to attend public school; federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability; and numerous California laws that specifically prohibit schools from removing students from campus absent exceptional, specific circumstances, or forcing them into independent study programs.
These allegations were corroborated by current-PYLUSD President, Leandra Blades, who testified in deposition that the Buck-Elsasser policy was not duly enacted, and was applied in a discriminatory manner that created “absolute chaos” and “trauma” throughout the District. Ms. Blades also testified that, even though she and fellow board member Shawn Youngblood tried to call a board meeting to undo the unilaterally set policy and triage the harms it was causing, both Buck and Elsasser engaged in unlawful tactics to prevent them or any other board member from doing so.
They were also corroborated by defendants, themselves, including former PYLUSD superintendent, defendant Elsasser, who testified in deposition that he would implement rules even if he knew they were hurting students or violating other laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act: “Yes. I am a rule follower.”
To add insult to injury, at the District’s latest board meeting on May 7, 2024, defendant board member Marilyn Anderson committed additional violations of law by singling out and identifying the Palicke family and announcing that their lawsuit had been dismissed.
Anderson’s actions were so egregious that they spurred current PYLUSD Superintendent, Alex Cherniss, to send the Palickes an official letter expressing his disgust over Ms. Anderson’s unlawful announcement and her gleeful disrespect towards them and their children.
“We fear for the safety of all school children if school boards and school officials are not required to follow the law.”
Said parents Shari and Chris Palicke. “If we do not take a stand and fight this Goliath, now, there is no telling what these corrupt politicians and administrators will do to our children when the next emergency comes around.”
“This terrible ruling turns a blind eye to the admitted discrimination and abuse that was directed only at certain disfavored students under pretense of a ‘health’ response,” said FACTS LAW TRUTH JUSTICE attorney, Rita Barnett-Rose. “It also implies that school officials, under cover of an ‘emergency,’ can do whatever they want to students, and if they don’t like it, they’ll be forced to leave. This isn’t what California law provides. This judge got it very wrong, and we intend to appeal.”
“I am 100% not surprised that nobody is taking responsibility for the aftermath of the most disgusting, egregious misuse of power,” said PYLUSD parent Maggie Uvalle. “Passing the blame over and over. If you were involved in these battles over the last several years, you’ve seen it play out and you know the personal stories of so many. It’s sick what has been done to Aidan and his family and the others like him. It’s not about the kids. It never has been.”
Media Contacts:
· Ian Jameson, ianjameson@proton.me, +1 (626) 553-0877
· Terri Harrah, terri@freenowfoundation.org, (310) 503-7718
Clair here💕
Placentia Ca doesn’t live up its name.. from the Latin.. “a good place to live”. But only if you are a WASP, and there is no shortage there💕
Former 3rd generation Californian and native born Placentia citizen here...raised my kids in Brea, I was heavily involved in a Brea local school board campaign to NOT elect a DemonRat Keri Kropke (single mom activist, who adopted an African American child- see below on her racist remarks to a BLACK police officer!)...she 100% LIED to me and told me what I wanted to hear so she could put up a sign on my VERY good corner home spot near a top elementary school...FOOL me once, can't fool me twice ! Her pic with her pink pussy hat with Hillary Clinton showed up after the election. As soon as she got on the board she created havoc, and chaos...AFTER the election, where all DemonRats WILL LIE as a means to their ends; I found out her Daddy (an LA Electrical Union VP) and his cronies funded her 2-year term campaign to the tune of $40,000!! Yeah, you read that right! A normal campaign for school board is @$3,000- $5,000 max). I worked to NOT re-elect her & she LOST...FOLKS, this is the DemonRAT MO= they divide the districts into small voting blocks, where you can only vote for your ONE local school member (Brea did this!) then they dump a SH-T load of money$$$ into each individual district block election and try to INFILTRATE your school boards one by one...Keri had many miss-steps from marching down a very busy Main Street in Brea for a racist-expletive-filled BLM rally & other such Brea police encounters which the BreaPD made public via chest scam video recordings...https://voiceofoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Hawley-report.pdf
Her DemonRat hand-chosen predecessor (Keri went on to Run and LOSE a seat on the OC College Board of Trustees) barely lost by a slim margin to a highly-respected local. These Ladies came into Brea to live & run for office..."they" play the long game...WE MUST RISE UP and do what they do one-by-one remove them from office. I have learned ALL Politics is LOCAL (city, county etc..) that is where you can have the most influence. Copy their playbook (except for racist remarks towards police) and GET INVOLVED...your children depend on it !