SWEET JUSTICE: Liberal Professor / ANTIFA nutjob forced to pay damages to College Republican! In California!

That headline is a sentence that escalates in schadenfreude as you go. A liberal college professor who is also an ANTIFA wacko has been forced by a court to pay damages for filing frivolous claims in court, and the damages are awarded to a College Republicans President, and it’s in BEREKELY, CALIFORNIA!! Her home turf.

This is practically fanfic. Except it’s what really happened, and I’m delighted.

Here’s more from Campus Reform:

A California court has ordered noted Antifa activist Yvette Felarca to pay over $11,000 in damages to former Berkeley College Republicans President Troy Worden.

The ruling, issued Wednesday, comes after a restraining order filed against Worden by Felarca was dropped in October, prompting Worden and his lawyer, Mark Meuser, to sue Felarca for damages and attorney fees, as Campus Reform first reported.

Worden, who has made numerous appearances on national media in his capacity as a Campus Reform correspondent to discuss his ongoing battles with the Berkeley administration and who was voted a winner of Campus Reform’s 2017 Higher Ed Heroes Award, remarked at the time that “Felarca’s frivolous legal actions were meant to intimidate [him] and hinder [his] political activism.”

The unhinged left, and particularly the unhinged California left, and especially particularly the unhinged California left on campuses think that the courts are there as a way to enforce political activism against the only enemy on planet earth that they are willing to recognize as an enemy: Republicans.

Turns out nope.

“Felarca and her fellow travelers in BAMN [By Any Means Necessary]/Antifa need to learn that the California courts are not their personal plaything to use and abuse at will by filing baseless and vexatious lawsuits,” she added, with Worden noting that the restraining order prevented him from exercising his free-speech rights on campus.

Now, Commissioner Thomas Rasch of the Superior Court of Alameda County has ordered Felarca to pay Worden $11,100 in attorney fees, according to a Thursday press release, which says Rasch determined that the order “had not been filed in good faith.”

Additionally, the press release notes that Felarca, whom it identifies as a Berkeley Middle School teacher, was arrested twice in 2017 for incitement of a riot, resisting arrest, and assaulting a police officer, arguing that the restraining order was an attempt to further stifle Worden’s First Amendment rights after the College Republicans invited several controversial speakers to campus.

“By ruling that she did not demonstrate good faith in filing the restraining order, the court recognized the frivolous nature of Felarca’s actions,” Meuser remarked. “The award of attorney fees should send a strong signal that she cannot abuse the court system to silence speech.”

You can find the press release and more background at Campus Reform.

Will the professor learn from this ruling? Or will she, like any radical zealot, see it as one more example of the man keeping her down?

Go ahead. Guess.


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