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Advocates for Faith & Freedom / Tyler & Bursch, LLP / Law Offices of Nicole C. Pearson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Contact: Desaré Ferraro at 951-600-2733 (office) or 714-348-0808 (cell)
dferraro@tylerbursch.com
For Immediate Release 07/28/2021, Los Angeles, California – On Saturday, July 24, Tyler & Bursch, LLP, the Law Offices of Nicole C. Pearson, Children’s Health Defense – California Chapter (CHD-CA) and Advocates for Faith & Freedom sued Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Federal Court in the Central District of California, challenging the school’s illegal vaccine, testing, masking, and social distancing mandates on behalf of two LMU undergraduate students.
A Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction will be filed soon hereafter.
The complaint maintains that LMU’s accommodations for exempted, unvaccinated students are discriminatory and have the effect of creating a campus-wide apartheid, with “vaccine-exempted” students required to live in separate dorms, wear face coverings, social distance, submit to surveillance testing, and have their bodily and medical privacy invaded, while their vaccinated peers are free to move about campus without any special conditions or requirements. The policy even requires the vaccine-exempted students to assume all risk for any COVID-related cases or injuries that develop on campus, even though asymptomatic transmission is unsupported by the weight of the scientific evidence.
“There is simply no rational basis in science, medicine or law for LMU to defend its policy,” said Alix Mayer, CHD-CA Board President. “Without any valid reason, this school is discriminating against healthy students who pose no risk to anyone.”
One of the alleged rationales behind LMU’s policy is that unvaccinated students pose a greater risk to the University community than do vaccinated students, even if healthy. There is, again, no defensible evidence to support this position.
“While the government is reporting that most hospitalized patients are unvaccinated,” said Mayer, “health professionals are reporting the exact opposite to Children’s Health Defense: according to medical professionals on the front lines, most people presenting at hospitals right now with severe symptoms have received one of the COVID shots.” This again suggests a lack of any rational basis for singling out unvaccinated students.
Robert Tyler, partner at Tyler & Bursch and president of Advocates for Faith & Freedom added, “These two students are not alone. There are many other students being harmed by LMU’s discriminatory policy, but they are afraid to have a light shined on them because they do not want to suffer even greater retaliation by the University. No student should be placed in this situation when all they want to do is get an education and experience the same rights of passage as their peers.”
For additional comments and interviews, please email Desare’ Ferraro at dferraro@tylerbursch.com or call 951-600- 2733 (office) or 714-348-0808 (cell/text).
Press Release
Children’s Health Defense CA / Advocates for Faith & Freedom / Tyler & Bursch, LLP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Contact: Desaré Ferraro at 951-600-2733 (office) or 714-348-0808 (cell)
dferraro@tylerbursch.com
For Immediate Release 06/22/2021, Los Angeles, California – Children’s Health Defense California (CHD-CA) and Southern California Law Firm Tyler & Bursch, LLP filed a complaint in U.S. District Court on behalf of their clients, parents seeking to bar Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Los Angeles County officials from continuing to implement certain mandates on their children as a requirement for them to return to in-person learning. This is the first lawsuit of its kind filed in California Federal Court regarding the targeting of school children with illegal and unnecessary COVID mandates.
These parents’ refusal to submit to routine, invasive PCR testing of their children; the forced downloading and use of the Microsoft app “Daily Pass” to collect and disseminate their children’s private health data; and the covering of their children’s faces all day while in school has resulted in LAUSD excluding their healthy children, and thousands of other healthy children, from attending school.
The lawsuit alleges that LAUSD and County protocols are discriminatory and exclusionary by design and have zero basis in law or science. In many instances, the effects of these protocols are most heavily borne by the same traditionally disadvantaged communities and individuals who have been denied equal access for generations. LAUSD has created an educational apartheid system that arbitrarily and without justification excludes healthy children from participating in school. This lawsuit will demonstrate how and why this kind of discrimination is flatly illegal and unconstitutional.
“California’s constitutional guarantee of a child’s right to a public education cannot be conditioned upon parents relinquishing their rights to protect their children’s health, well-being and privacy,” said Kristina Heuser, Constitutional Attorney for Tyler & Bursch and Advocates for Faith & Freedom.
CHD-CA President Alix Mayer added, “The Daily Pass program is built around products – PCR tests and face masks – that are not approved, and therefore cannot be mandated. Further, the weight of the scientific evidence does not support future approval of these products for the uses for which they are being mandated. With federal law on this subject as clear as it is, we have a strong case that this discriminatory program violates both federal and state law and is unconstitutional.”
County Goes After Calvary Chapel San Jose’s Youth Pastor! CA Pastors Unite with Attorneys, Hold Courthouse Press Conference
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Tyler & Bursch, LLP | Advocates for Faith & Freedom
January 20, 2021
For Immediate Release
Contact: Desaré Ferraro, dferraro@tylerbursch.com or cell, 951-600-2733
San José, CA, January 20, 2021 – Calvary Chapel San Jose Pastors Mike McClure and Pastor Carson Atherley both appeared in court last Friday, January 15, 2021 on charges of contempt of court, facing jail time and fines of up to $30,000 each, for holding indoor church and worship services.
At Friday’s trial, Tyler & Bursch and Advocates for Faith & Freedom attorneys were able to prove that it is okay for 25 people to be waiting in a bus station, standing in a bank, or washing clothes in a laundromat, but 25 people doing a Bible study or washing their souls in worship is illegal, even though the sanctuary holds 2,000 people.
With the completion of cross examination of the County’s witnesses, the Contempt trial will continue Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.
With appalling fines of over $1 million for the church and possible jail time at stake, Pastor Mike McClure and Carson Atherley will appear before Judge Peter Kirwan to face Contempt charges and tens of thousands of dollars in personal fines.
Lead counsel Robert Tyler had this to say: “Sometimes it’s hard to prove the obvious when people have their minds made up in advance. We are praying that this judge will see clearly and reject the County’s aggressive posture toward this church and these pastors. The Supreme Court has already ruled, and this court must follow suit when we continue our hearing on Thursday.”
Expert witness, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, is scheduled to testify on behalf of the church. Dr. Jay has been actively researching the COVID-19 epidemic using his expertise in infectious disease epidemiology and health economics.
Attorneys will be available for additional comments and interviews by contacting Desaré Ferraro at dferraro@tylerbursch.com, 951-600-2733 (office), or 714-348-0808 (cell/text).
About Tyler & Bursch, LLP (www.tylerbursch.com): With offices in Murrieta and Irvine CA, Tyler & Bursch’s attorneys have been litigating civil liberties cases for more than 25 years in federal and state court. Tyler & Bursch provides pro-bono legal support through the non-profit legal organization, Advocates for Faith & Freedom (www.faith-freedom.com).