A federal judge on Monday threw out an $87 million lawsuit filed by a San Francisco school board member against the district and five of her colleagues, ruling that her claims lacked merit.
Alison Collins filed her lawsuit in March, accusing her colleagues of violating her First Amendment right to free speech when the board voted to strip her of her vice presidency and remove her from committees over tweets she posted in 2016 about Asian Americans.
Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California also threw out a preliminary injunction that would have reinstated her as the school board vice president.
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In the suit, Collins claimed her removal from the vice president post resulted in “irreparable injury, loss, and damage,” including “damage to her reputation and standing in the community.”
In a string of tweets dating back to 2016, before she was on the school board, Collins wrote that many Asian Americans use “white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead.”
In March, a group behind the push to recall several members of the San Francisco Unified School Board highlighted the tweets. Once the group leaked the tweets, they were condemned by several city leaders, including Democratic Mayor London Breed, who tweeted that students “deserve better.”
Collins claimed the tweets were in response to Asian American children at Francisco Middle School harassing a Latino student.
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Following complaints that the tweets were spewing anti-Asian hate, the school board voted to strip Collins of her title and committee assignments. Collins responded by suing the district and her fellow board members.
Collins, who has a history of riling up the school board both as a parent and member, was also caught on a hot mic, calling merit-based admissions and their supporters “racist.”
The ruling in her case came three days before it was scheduled for its first hearing in court.
