LA Jury Awards Teacher $915k Against LAUSD for Retaliation | Jurimatic by Exlitem

Theodore Faye v. Los Angeles Unified School District, et al.

Case Background

The plaintiff, Theodore Faye, was a 66-year-old video production teacher at Holmes Middle School in Northridge. On June 15, 2021, he filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). He alleged retaliation, harassment, and discrimination, claiming violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and the Labor Code. LAUSD is a public school district organized under California state law. Its governing board, officers, employees, and staff operated and managed Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School. The plaintiff filed the case in the California Superior Court, Los Angeles County. Judges Daniel M. Crowley and Monica Bachner presided over the case. [Case number: 21STCV22368]

Cause

On December 18, 2019, Theodore Faye, a teacher at Holmes Middle School discovered disturbing caricatures targeting him, created by four eighth-grade boys. These images depicted bloody bullet holes, a hatchet in his head, Nazi symbols, and racist and anti-Semitic slurs. The teacher immediately reported the drawings to the school administration. Despite expressing urgent safety concerns for himself and his students, he was ignored. The school even planned to return the boys to his class the next day. Assistant Principal Mari Ann Aguilar described the drawings as "unflattering caricatures," suggesting they were open to in

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Middle School Teacher Awarded $915k After Facing Harassment and Retaliation By LAUSD