GAW,
1) The board always used an aboveboard law firm. A firm that had experience in such matters. Unfortunately one of the “so-called activists” so irritated (and that is their method) one of the associates that he responded in an unprofessional method. And he did not do any further work for the school board.
2)More to the point, those were not the legal costs that nor the legal firms that the insurance did not pay for. The firms that were not covered by insurance were well respected large firms including Proskauer Rose.
3) Those firms were hired to represent the board in response to a slew of law suits initiated by these so called activists as a matter of harassment. Almost every single one of which was dismissed as frivolous.
4) The “activists” are doing the same again, initiating a suit that is meant solely to harass the board members and ultimately run up additional legal fees which will then be used as a complaint against them.
5) These activists have threatened the board members and harass them at their homes. They are truly despicable.