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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Philadelphia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The Satanic Temple gets $200,000 and free access from PA district that tried to bar its After School Satan Club

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The Satanic Temple gets $200,000 and free access from PA district that tried to bar its After School Satan Club

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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Philadelphia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Satanic Temple after-school club wins $200k settlement from Hellertown school district
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The club with the motto Educatin' with Satan has to be treated like any other student group, according to the settlement.
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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    No. The Satanic Temple gets nothing but a slightly more fair country. The lawyers get 200k.

    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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      Sara Rose, deputy legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, which represented the Satanic Temple, was pleased the district will grant the After School Satan Club equal access to school facilities.

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        Satanic Temple article: https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/news/saucon-valley-district-settles-over-after-school-satan-club-ban-amid-school-board-election-losses-tied-to-financially-wasteful-ego-driven-legal-melodramas

        ACLU article: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/pennsylvania-school-district-agrees-to-pay-200000-after-discriminatory-decision-to-block-after-school-satan-club-from-school-facilities

        The settlement (on ACLU’s website): https://www.aclu.org/cases/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district?document=Settlement-Agreement-TST-v-SVSD

        E. Nominal Damages

        The District agrees to pay Plaintiff $1 in nominal damages. Within ten (10) business days of the District’s receipt of a W9 from Plaintiff, Defendant’s insurance carrier will issue payment.This payment is made in recognition of the fact that Plaintiff alleges a constitutional injury resulting from the District’s decision to rescind approval for Plaintiff’s use of SVSD facilities. The District’s payment is not an admission of wrongdoing.

        F. Attorneys’ Fees, Costs, and Litigation Expenses

        The Parties have agreed that Defendant’s insurance carrier will issue payment in the amount of Two-Hundred Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($200,000.00) in attorneys’ fees and costs to Plaintiff’s attorneys. Within ten (10) business days of the District’s receipt of a W9 from the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Defendant’s insurance carrier will issue payment.

        So the $200k is indeed going to lawyers, however those lawyers are the ACLU. Meanwhile, the Satanic Temple “gets nothing but a slightly more fair country”. And $1.

        • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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          $1 which is apparently not an admission of wrongdoing 🙄

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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        Which they are entitled to, and should have been from the beginning.

  • AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Yay and all, but this is so fucking dorky lmao

    • matter@lemmy.world
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      Your idea of cool/dorky is a conservative psyop

      • AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Yeah sure

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      Nerds deserve their first amendment rights, too.

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