Today during the 2:30 p.m. hearing set in federal court to hear 404th District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez's motion for a Temporary Restraining Order against the Brownsville Independent School District, Judge Andrew Hanen is also being asked by three defendants to quash the subpoenas served on them.
Cornejo-Lopez also wants Hanen to allow her son to drop-add a course if the one he wants isn't being offered.
BISD Superintendent Esperanza Zendejas, former Asst. Superintendent Carlos Guerra, and board secretary Patricia Perez all filed motions Dec. 29 asking Hanen to throw out the subpoenas served upon them by a process server while Cornejo-Lopez was present.
The plaintiffs – Lopez-Cornejo individually and as next friend of L.G.L. an L.M.L (Leo and Lucy Lopez, her son and daughter) – contend that the BISD has discriminated against them and deprived them of a long litany of constitutional rights. On of those is the defendants' alleged unequal treatment in not getting GPA credit for Advance Placement courses for an exam taken in middle school for which credit is given only to high school students.
Another is for not allowing one (L.G.L) to take an AP Psychology course on the grounds it is a course designated for 11th and 12th graders. L.G. L. is a freshman.
All three were served with subpoenas on Dec. 21, the last day of school before Christmas vacation. Classes resume January 8. It was also Guerra's last day before he retired from the BISD.
In her motion to quash the subpoena, Zendejas states that she was at home on Dec. 21 when at approximately 10:15 p.m. she "observed a white SUV waiting at the driveway of her house as the doorbell rang. Because (she) did not recognize the vehicle, she didn't answer the door. The next morning, as (she) walked out of her house, the same SUV drove up. A woman ran out of the vehicle and attempted to serve (her) with a subpoena.
"At the same time (she) observed Elia C. Lopez videotaping her. (She) asked the server to please meet her at the district's administration building. At that time, the process server threw the subpoena into Dr. Zendejas' car."
The three defendants say that Cornejo-Lopez' subpoena to appear in federal court January 3 – in the middle of planned vacations – and requiring them to bring certain documents available only to the district's record custodians places an undue burden on them. The documents they are commanded to bring are in the sole possession of the BISD, and not in their possession, they said.
The only issue of irreparable injury subject to theTRO hearing would be that Leo would allegedly not be able to take the AP Psychology course, Zendejas contends. All three assert that all the other documents they are commanded to produce bear no relevance to the plaintiffs' motion for a TRO.
Cornejo-Lopez also filed an amended supplemental motion for the TRO citing a "substantial threat of irreparable injury" to Leo saying that Veteran Memorial High School Counselor Laura Torres had informed her by email on Nov. 17, 2017 that AP Psychology is not being offered in the Spring of 2018 "After and only AFTER the filing of this lawsuit and the application for a TRO did the defendant, for the first time, state that AP Psychology is not being offered in the Spring of 2018 semester.
(This might be a typo since Cornejo-Lopez and her kids filed the complaint on Nov. 30, according to the federal docket. Did she mean Torres emailed her December 17, 2017?)
"Therefore, plaintiff requests any AP course offered in the Spring of 2018 semester, specifically, bot not, limited to AP Macro Economics, AP Micro Economics, or AP Government."
Will Hanen quash the subpeonas based on the the manner in which Cornejo-Lopez had the three BISD officials served (with her present) and the alleged undue burden placed upon the defendants to appear with documents during the holiday vacations? Will he apply the rule that "No person who is a party to or interested in the outcome of a suit may serve any process."
Was Cornejo-Lopez, a plaintiff and former lea attorney obviously overseeing the process server who she had paid for the service, by being present and videotaping the service, violate the service rule?
And will Hanen (asked to be placed in the role of high school counselor and registrar), allow Leo to take an AP course which is restricted to 11th and 12th graders before there are any findings of fact so he can attend the cours January 8?
14 comments:
Jude Cornejo is just a mother who knows her kids rights and is advocating for them, luckily for BISD many parents are ignorant or just don't speak for their kids. Judge, please show them what heavy weight really means!!!!
que fea esta esta vieja 'NI PARA CARNITAS ESTA BUENA'
Got a hog in my sight. Fire!
Hello
Do you mean, Leo or is it really Lucy. It seems Leo doesn't even know what is going on, just like his father and Lucy is throwing Tamper Tantrums, just like her Mother. How about that? The judge working outside the law! Only in Brownsville.
Elia is a "helicopter mother" and a "helicopter judge".....she thinks her kids are "special" because they are her kids, and she thinks she is "special" because of her position. She wants BISD to accommodate her and her kids, and because BISD didn't, she is bringing this suit against BISD. Following the process server around and filming the distribution of subpoenas is just petty; something she probably would not do in cases before her. Her efforts are surely to intimidate BISD officials...to try to force BISD to give her kids "special dispensation" from the rules. Pure intimidation by a public figure who should be forced off the bench.
Scientists have captured the first footage of one of the world's rarest - and ugliest - pig It was last seen on 7th and Harrsion st. Brownsville, TX.
It is one thing to be a concerned mother, and another to be completely vindictive about it. If she has that much disdain for BISD, why not put them in a private school that can address all her children's special needs? I'd be extremely embarrassed if she were my mother!! I'm sure she treats people like crap at work, and who's going to defend her employees from her wrath? She needs to tough it out, school is tough enough as it is for teenagers, and this is just going to add to it. Que verguenza!
La axe demas asiendose la pobricita. Tamalera.
A picture speaks a thousand words,or as they say it’s in the pudding......
Judge Hanen you graduated first in your class at Baylor Law School.
Just follow the Law, don't think about what will follow. If you follow the Law as it is written you will have done the right thing.
Im old school folks, my parents said they we kids were an example of them and they way we were brought up was to respect your elders, teachers etc or if not suffer the consequences, like a belt, la varita or the water hose, hey they didn't fuck around, you disrespected them you got it toyota. Looks like judge lopez here was brought up the wrong way, and now her kids are doing the same, like they say in Russia judge lopez, Tuffsheskey, or as they say here in Brownsville, tough shit.
Nothing has changed since Sharp Elementary. Elia still seeking special treatment for her kids.Videotaping and grievances are her way of bullying administration and teachers. All this done in her office while at work. Uses her secretary to do all the paperwork. Pathetic human being.
What the hell is that HIDEOUS GROWTH under her chin ?
Post a Comment