{"id":10882,"date":"2024-05-28T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10882"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:00:11","slug":"mom-sued-for-defamation-against-public-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10882","title":{"rendered":"Mom Sued for Defamation Against Public School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/mom-sued-for-defamation-against-public-school\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/mom-sued-for-defamation-against-public-school\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty has filed an appeal on behalf of Scarlett Johnson, a Wisconsin Moms for Liberty Activist, who is being sued for defamation for criticizing her school district on social media for employing a \u201csocial justice coordinator.\u201d WILL says it filed this appeal because, quote, Ms. Johnson\u2019s posts are protected by the First Amendment, and she should not have to endure a costly, pointless, and incoherent jury trial.<\/p>\n<p>This situation is instructive. Now we have employees in a Wisconsin public school district attempting to bully citizens into silence if they publicly disagree with a district\u2019s hiring decision. This is a frivolous lawsuit with one intention: to scare citizens from speaking up. Expressing a critical opinion in a social media post isn\u2019t defamation; it\u2019s free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/mom-sued-for-defamation-against-public-school\/ Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty has filed an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10883,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions\/10883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}