In an attempt to take a lawsuit filed in Mayes County against State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walter’s Bible related classroom instruction mandate to federal court, the lead attorney for the State Department of Education, Michael Beason, made an apparent mistake. He filed it in the wrong federal district.
The Oklahoman’s Murray Evans writes a federal judge has now given Beason until August 26 to explain why the case should not be sent back to state court because of the error.
Joseph Price filed the lawsuit after Walters put the mandate in place.
Beason filed the petition in the Western District of Oklahoma. The case should have been filed in the Northern District of Oklahoma because Mayes County lies within that U.S. District Court’s jurisdiction.
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