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Free Our Faces, a group of Sheridan parents who are against the mask mandate at SCSD#2, have filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court against SCSD#2 School Board of Trustees, as well against Governor Gordon, and the Wyoming Department of Health.
Shelta Rambur, Tiffany Leimback, and a host of other parents, filed a lawsuit, case No. 021cv201, in US District Court in Cheyenne on Nov. 3. The 128 page petition states in part that “…on behalf of themselves and their minor children, through their attorney, Nick Beduhn, come together for their cause of action against the respondents for fraud, and relief from the enforcement of such fraud…..and that the executive and health orders regarding SARS-Covid 19, which has resulted in many and repeated violations of state and federal law and of the rights and liberties of the petitioners.”
The petitioners are asking for a preliminary injunction against the respondents for applying, enforcing, or compelling any policy, requirement, and/or mandate toward any petitioners, their children….or toward others similarity situated. They also move this count to make the injunctive relief statewide. The petitioners also move the court to set a jury trial date to determine the petitioners cause of action of fraud.
Nick Beduhn and Shelta Rambur shared their views on the lawsuit, which is about upholding the petitioners constitutional rights.
Beduhn said that the elected officials have to uphold the constitution, and uphold the rights of taxpaying citizens that they get their federal and state money from. Burdh said there were petitioners around Wyoming that are a part of the lawsuit. He had this to say.
Rambur said, “We are not being heard by the school board, they don’t want to hear from us,… obviously they dismissed us…if you are open to the public you must accommodate the public. They are discriminating against disabled people, people with medical exemptions, and people who do not believe in wearing masks, those people are not being represented by them….. Our children being abused by wearing the those masks. We want our rights to be upheld. We are about parental choice, not force, not mandates.”
Scott Stults, superintendent of SCSD#2, could not comment on the upcoming lawsuit, but at the school board meeting on Nov. 1 he had this to say about why he felt masks were important at the school.
The Sheridan County District Court lawsuit, 2021-344, filed Oct. 25, states that the plan requires parents to choose between sending their children to school without masks and face disciplinary action; sending them to school with masks in violation of their fundamental rights as parents to make that decision; or remove them from school, even though the school district has a constitutional obligation to offer free education to children.
The lawsuit concluded with the statement, “Petitioner prays for the judgment of this court that given it is the fundamental right of petitioners in the care, custody and control of their children as recognized by the Wyoming Supreme Court, Article 7, §1 and Article 1 §38 of the Wyoming Constitutions that, therefore the face coverings mandate Covid-19 plan of SCSD#2 is void and unenforceable and has been issued without legal authority” and that the mask mandate, “violates the constitutional rights of parents.”
The Petitioners also asked for a temporary restraining order against the mandate for face coverings until the petition for Declaratory Judgment can be heard by the court.
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Last modified: November 8, 2021