Federal jury rules Pennsylvania school district must pay teacher $130,000

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Former Pennsylvania social studies teacher Jason Moorehead was just awarded $131,500 by a federal jury after it was found that he was defamed and ultimately fired from his job because he simply traveled to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021 for Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally.

Moorehead was in town to watch former President Donald Trump speak, but he was more than a mile away when rioters stormed the Capitol.

However, the very next day, the Allentown School District put out a statement implicating him, and Moorehead’s teaching career went up in flames faster than you could say “insurrection.”

Moorehead filed this lawsuit in federal court back in October 2022.

He claims the school district rushed to judgment by issuing a Jan. 7 statement to the community saying ‘a teacher was involved in the electoral college protest that took place at the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.’

Moorehead claims he was wrongly suspended and later fired for exercising his right to free speech and free assembly.

The school district tried to justify their actions by pointing to Moorehead’s “inflammatory” social media posts, such as him allegedly posting a meme that called violence on January 6 “hilarious,” claiming that the district received complaints almost immediately.

Meanwhile, Moorehead’s attorney is singing the praises of the jury for recognizing that his client’s First Amendment rights were trampled.

We are gratified that a federal jury recognized that the Allentown School District violated Jason Moorehead’s First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and political affiliation, and recognized that then school Board Members, Nancy Wilt and Lisa Conover, maliciously and wantonly attacked him. There was never any justification for this insidious and Orwellian course of action.