A federal court ordered California on Monday to pay $4.52 million in attorneys’ fees after the Supreme Court blocked the state’s policy in March allowing schools to hide students’ “gender” transitions from parents.
Judge Roger Benitez in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California ordered the state to pay millions to attorneys at Thomas More Society, the conservative public-interest law firm that represented plaintiffs in the case.
“A $4.5 million fee award sends an unmistakable message to state governments and school districts across the country: if you trample the constitutional rights of parents, you will pay for it—literally,” said Peter Breen, Executive Vice President and Head of Litigation at Thomas More Society.
The class action lawsuit was originally brought by two Christian teachers in California in 2023 and was joined in 2024 by several concerned parents whose families have been impacted by the policy. Among the
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