Legal Opinion
Benner v. St. Paul Pub. Sch.
District Court, D. Maine
Decided May 3, 2019No. Case No. 17-cv-1568 (SRN/KMM)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUSAN RICHARD NELSON, United States District Judge
This case aptly illustrates the adage that there are always "two sides to every story." On the one hand, Plaintiff Aaron Benner ("Benner") claims that, after he (a tenured African-American elementary school teacher) spoke against Defendant St. Paul Public Schools' ("SPPS") "racial equity policy" during a widely-covered May 2014 school board meeting, SPPS worked with his new Principal (Defendant Lisa Gruenewald) to "paper" his then-impeccable record with "bogus" investigations and disciplinary measures, so as to make him a ripe target for…
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