Sloppy Filing Nixes Suit Over Historic School, 5th Cir. Affirms

A historical society’s defamation, discrimination, and other claims against a Texas school district were properly dismissed because the society’s attorney abused the judicial process through late filings, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

Charlie Brown, a formerly enslaved man who lived in Brazoria County, Texas, and became a millionaire, donated land to a local school district for a school, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in an unpublished opinion April 30.

In 2007, the Columbia-Brazoria Independent School District gave the Charlie Brown School facilities and property to the nonprofit Charlie Brown Heritage Foundation for “public purposes aimed at ...