Alleging a federal lawsuit over diversity training was a "calculated attempt" to drag Springfield Public Schools into a "political dispute," the district has asked an appeals court to uphold a decision requiring the employees who filed it to pay nearly $313,000 in legal fees.
The 2021 lawsuit was thrown out and U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool, describing it as frivolous, ordered Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley to reimburse the district for 1,538 of the hours its attorneys spent to r...