L.A. School District Loses Court Battle Against Employees Who Refused The Jab
Leslie Manookian, president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund
PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Leslie Manookian, president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), a nonprofit which seeks to rectify health injustice through education, advocacy, and legal challenges to unjust mandates, laws, and policies that undermine our health freedoms and human rights.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is in need of some serious soul-searching.
LAUSD heartlessly terminated over 1000 committed school teachers for declining the Covid-19 vaccines. Then, as if violating its employees’ constitutionally-protected religious beliefs and individual medical needs was not injury enough, LAUSD audaciously sought to recover more than $200,000 in attorneys’ fees from the fired employees and other plaintiffs.
In its motion to the United States District Court requesting legal fees, LAUSD gallingly claimed the lawsuit defending the employees’ constitutional rights is “frivolous.”
April 3rd, 2023 the court issued its one-sentence ruling: “For reasons stated by Plaintiff, the Motion is Denied.”
Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), California Educators for Medical Freedom (CAEMF), and several individual plaintiffs sued LAUSD when it mandated the Covid-19 vaccines for all employees on August 13, 2021.
In the complaint the plaintiffs argued that Covid-19 injections are therapeutics, not vaccines, as they do not prevent infection or transmission. This is not an empty assertion as on July 27th, 2021, CDC revised guidance stating that Covid-19 injections do not stop transmission or infection of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
This point is critical as the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled in Cruzan vs. Director in 1990 that medical treatments may be refused even if they might save a recipient’s life.
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BIO: Leslie Manookian is a former successful Wall Street business executive and award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Originally from Idaho, Manookian’s career in finance took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs. She later became Director of Alliance Capital in London running their European Growth Portfolio Management and Research businesses. She conceived, wrote, and produced, The Greater Good, an award-winning documentary on vaccines.
In addition to the Health Freedom Defense Fund Board, Leslie currently serves on the boards of the Weston A. Price Foundation and Health Freedom Idaho. She is a qualified homeopath, nutrition and wellbeing junky, and a health freedom advocate.
Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), led by Leslie, filed over a dozen lawsuits in the past two and a half years. The most significant lawsuit, Health Freedom Defense Fund et al. v. President Biden et al., ended the federal travel mask mandate nationwide.
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Leslie Manookian, president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), a nonprofit which seeks to rectify health injustice through education, advocacy, and legal challenges to unjust mandates, laws, and policies that undermine our health freedoms and human rights.