Freshwater: Appeal documents flowing in
As I reported a month ago, the Rutherford Institute, acting on behalf of John Freshwater, appealed Judge Otho Eyster's decision in the Court of Common Pleas to the Ohio 5th District Court of Appeals. Eyster ruled that the Mt. Vernon Board of Education's termination of Freshwater was justified on the evidence of the administrative hearing.
Now additional documents are becoming available. The first to be publicly available is NCSE's amicus brief (pdf). Yet to come are an amicus brief being filed by the Dennis family and the school board's brief. The deadline for filing is today, January 13, and I expect that final copies will be publicly available soon. When they are I'll write a longer post summarizing them after I have a chance to read them all.
The case is not yet scheduled for oral arguments before the Court of Appeals. The Court's schedule is published through February, 2012.
7 Comments
eric · 13 January 2012
Interesting reminder of some of the stuff Freshwater taught. One of his students came out of class thinking the Romans killed the dinosaurs!?!
Hmmm...maybe I should rephrase that. It was one student who admitted to learning that - who knows how many did learn it.
cwjolley · 13 January 2012
Got to admit that would make a fun movie.
John_S · 14 January 2012
Karen S. · 14 January 2012
mjcross42 · 17 January 2012
I'm just wondering who will have to pay for the appeal proceedings,if there are any. Is this going to cost the school district even more money?
Richard B. Hoppe · 17 January 2012
nmgirl · 17 January 2012
I just read NCSE's brief. This is a very important summary of the entire assault on science and I savedit for the next time it comes up here in New Mexico.