Antifa Loudmouth Files False Claim, Courts Fed up With Libs Issue Fine
She tried to play with the law, now she’ll have to pay the price.
Commissioner Thomas Rasch of the Superior Court of Alameda County, California, last week ordered a leader of a violent antifa group to pay $11,100 in attorney’s fees to the former president of the Berkeley College Republicans, Campus Reform reported.
The Wednesday ruling was against Yvette Felarca, a leader of the group BAMN, or By Any Means Necessary, who’d filed a restraining order in September against Troy Worden, the Republican group leader. The restraining order was dismissed by a court in October, prompting Worden and his lawyer, Mark Meuser, to file a suit for damages in attorney’s fees.
“Felarca’s frivolous legal actions were meant to intimidate (me) and hinder (my) political activism,” Worden said, according to Campus Reform.
By penalizing Felarca, Rasch sent a clear message that antifa will not be permitted to weaponize the legal system to stamp out political opponents, which is exactly what Felarca tried to do.
Harmeet Dhillon, a managing partner of the law group with which Meuser is affiliated, called out Felarca for “filing and dismissing utterly frivolous cases against innocent targets” and promised to keep her “accountable,” according to a separate Campus Reform report.
“Felarca and her fellow travelers in BAMN/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,” he stated.
“She is on notice — stunts like this one will no longer go unchallenged in the courts by ordinary citizens. We will hold her, and her lawyers, accountable.”
Meuser agreed wholeheartedly.
“By ruling that she did not demonstrate good faith in filing the restraining order, the court recognized the frivolous nature of Felarca’s actions,” he said.
“The award of attorney fees should send a strong signal that she cannot abuse the court system to silence speech.”
There’s even more to Felarca’s story than these ridiculous actions against Worden. According to Dhillon, this is actually the second time in two months that the woman and her lawyers have been ordered to pay the attorney fees for someone they tried to intimidate through the court system.
Besides the injustice of these frivolous lawsuits, there’s another big reason that the court has to crack down on them.
If the court is bogged down in idiotic lawsuits, there are far fewer men and women — judges, attorneys and clerks — to take care of issues that actually matter.
“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,” Dhillon explained.
The Washington Examiner noted that although Felarca actually got off easy with the $11,000 fee — Worden had sought $100,000 in damages — her attorney still plans to appeal the ruling, claiming the judge was politically biased.
They’ll need luck with that one. If your best defense is “this California judge isn’t liberal enough,” you’re probably on the losing side of an argument.
But on the bright side, the many court appearances to come should keep Felarca away from her day job as a middle school teacher in Berkley, a job she somehow still has despite having been arrested twice in 2017 for incitement of a riot, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.
That means she’ll have less time to indoctrinate children on the taxpayer’s dime.
Maybe she’ll learn a lesson, too.
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