[ April 23, 2024 ]
Real justice for a “social justice warrior” (this century’s Hitler youth).
Geller Report readers are familiar with Yvette Felarca’s anti-free speech thuggery. Yvette Felarca is the Northern California Coordinator of radical leftist group By Any Means Necessary and former Berkeley middle school teacher who was arrested last summer on charges of inciting and participating in a riot and assault likely to cause great bodily injury during a 2016 protest. She was one of the leaders of the protests against Free Speech Week at Berkeley that Milo, Mike Cernovich and I were scheduled to speak at before it was canceled by a lame and craven administration.
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Court orders Antifa activist to pay $11k for frivolous claims
Anthony Gockowski, Campus Reform, Jan 05, 2018 (thanks to Dangerous):
A prominent Antifa activist has been ordered to pay $11,100 in attorney fees to the former president of the Berkeley College Republicans for filing a frivolous restraining order against him.
Troy Worden had been seeking up to $100,000 in damages, arguing that Yvette Felarca had abused the justice system by “filing baseless and vexatious lawsuits” designed to intimidate her political opponents.
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.
“The award of attorney fees should send a strong signal that she cannot abuse the court system to silence speech.” Tweet This
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.”
[RELATED: Antifa leader arrested after scuffle in Berkeley]
Harmeet Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group, through which Meuser is representing Worden, said that Felarca has a history of “filing and dismissing utterly frivolous cases against innocent targets” and pledged to hold her and her lawyers “accountable.”
“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.
[RELATED: Student op-ed blasts Berkeley for protecting free speech]
“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.”
The press release also notes that the University of California, Berkeley’s efforts to block speakers invited by the school’s College Republicans chapter are the subject on an ongoing federal lawsuit.
“This marks the second time in two months that Felarca and her lawyers have been ordered by an area court to pay the attorney fees of their opponents for filing legally and factually unsupported claims in court,” Dhillon commented. “True victims of harassment/stalking/assault need the courts to be available to them as a priority, not clogged with fabricated claims pursued in bad faith.”
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33 Comments
6 years ago
If attorneys were involved, charges should be brought against them and they should be disbarred.
6 years ago
Reply to
PhillipNagle
Have attorneys been disbarred for representing clients in frivolous lawsuits?
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Several years ago, an attorney-at-law was disbarred for bringing a frivolous liability suit against Upjohn and Company. However, most normally fines are ordered and, rarely, does it even progress to the point that the court holds a member of the bar to civil contempt. Yet, disbarment has occurred as the result of bringing a frivolous lawsuit.
Federal Rule 46(b)(1)(B) states that a lawyer who “is guilty of conduct unbecoming a member of the court’s bar” may be disciplined or disbarred.
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Perhaps the most common form of sanctions imposed against opposing counsel occurs under Rule 11, a federal rule that enables judges to penalize lawyers who violate the provisions contained therein. For example, Rule 11 requires the attorney signing pleadings to certify that the signer’s knowledge, information, and belief were “formed after reasonable inquiry,” that the pleading or motion is “well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose.” Thus, under Rule 11 an attorney is required to engage in additional investigation before signing the pleading
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Sanctions are also appropriately imposed against lawyers under federal law — title, 28, section 1927 — for conduct that, viewed objectively, manifests either intentional or reckless disregard of the attorney’s duties as officers of the court.
So, the answer is “yes”.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Very good break down. Also you could say common sense comes into play here too. Any attorney who takes a case that any reasonable person would deem frivolous, should be either penalized, or disbarred. They are obviously letting greed get in the way of professionalism.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Hi, sanatashandler. But, it is very rare. There is a balance between advocate and officer of the court … and greater weight is given to advocate. To go after a lawyer .. for a court to do so … unless a lawsuit is brought against that attorney-at-law .. and even then, even a simple sanction is scarcer than hen’s teeth.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
very good. The answer is gonna be nope, nada. IF the fine ever gets paid, she ain’t gonna spend a dime. Anyone check to see if there is a go fund me page for her?
6 years ago
I’ll bet all of your “supporters” will probably abandon you now that there is fine that will have to be paid because you violated someones free speech. I can hear it now “Yvette Felarca” who? And yet they were blindly following along with her when she tried to stop free speech because she did not agree with it.
6 years ago
Reply to
Steve Kalmbach
Are you kidding? $11000 is pocket change for Fellatia’s commie handlers. She won’t have to pay a dime of it.
6 years ago
Kudos to Troy Worden for bringing a suit against this vile commie piece of work. There’s a lesson in this. Don’t let them bully us, fight back. Hate and stupidity is all they’ve got. Make them understand that every vile act of intolerance and anger will be greeted with push back. Establish firmly that there will be pain and cost associated with their dementia.
6 years ago
Felarca and her fellow travelers in BAMN …need to learn that the California courts are not their personal plaything to use and abuse at will by filing baseless and vexatious lawsuits,”
Golly, who knew?
Berkeley sustains and encourages this kind of totalitarian trash.
6 years ago
‘… Hitler youth(?, under 18 yrs.)’
antifa, new SS in town
6 years ago
I wonder if Yvette (or someone) will start a GoFundMe campaign to pay the bills, and if they’ll be honest about where the $$$$$ would go…
6 years ago
Reply to
CentralCaliGal
She is a state employee who almost certainly has leftist connections with deep pockets. Not only will she not have to pay this fine, she will retire in a few years with a full state pension. How’s that for justice?
6 years ago
Good, it is time for society to amass huge counter attacks against those trying to use law fare to force submission and repression of Americans institutional rights.
6 years ago
Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!
$nowflakes being sued into oblivion,…. PRICELESS !!!
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
$11000 is hardly oblivion. She won’t have to pay a dime of it.
6 years ago
That huzzy should be thrown into prison where many butches are waiting.
6 years ago
One quick strike right under the jutting chin would solve a big problem and be a start.
6 years ago
Yes, YES! One small victory for Republicans/Freedom of Speech advocates, etc. All the rest of the Antifa pond scum should have the same treatment given to them
6 years ago
LOL!
6 years ago
Notice how far leftist organizations and nation states have titles that belie their composition and philosophies. ANTIFA embodies fascism instead of opposing it, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a.k.a. North Korea, is anything but, and the same holds true for the Democratic Party in the US.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
There’s quite the linkage between the DPRK and the United State’s Democrat Party. Franklin D (the “D” stands for “demonspawn”) Roosevelt created North Korea … over the vehement objections of Sir Winston Churchill.
6 years ago
Felarca’s mouth looks like a pug bulldogs ass
6 years ago
Well this is Great News!!!! Couldn’t of happen to a Nicer B_tch!!!!
6 years ago
Send her away, illegal, send her back, criminal, lock her up.
6 years ago
This may have the appearance of justice, but it is far from it. The former president of the Berkeley College Republicans spent ten times that defending himself from her false legal claims.
6 years ago
finally, a California court gets it right!
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(never thought I’d see the day!)
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6 years ago
I’m surprised she won with 98% liberals in the land of Oz.
6 years ago
She looks like another racist anti white hate monger to me.
6 years ago
This is a pathetic judgement. This amount is not even really punitive compared to the trouble this creature has caused.
6 years ago
What a woman Pamela is.
