Five Teachers Sue California Teachers Association

(L) Mariah Gondeiro Watt of the Freedom Foundation, (C) plaintiff Bethany Mendez, and (R) Harmeet Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group, on March 11, 2019. Ted Lin/NTD

Five schoolteachers have filed a lawsuit against the California Teachers Association (CTA), one of the largest teachers’ unions in California politics.

Plaintiffs Bethany Mendez, Linda Leigh-Dick, Audrey Stewart, Scott Carpenter, and Angela Williams claim in the lawsuit that CTA violated the teachers’ First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association.