U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School Dist
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Eric L. Clay
- Filed
- Sept. 16, 2025
- Case
- Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School Dist
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0424n.06 No. 24-1842 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Sep 16, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) SANDRA HERNDEN, ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT v. ) COURT FOR THE EASTERN ) DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN CHIPPEWA VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT, ) et al., ) OPINION Defendants-Appellees. ) ) ) Before: CLAY, KETHLEDGE, and STRANCH, Circuit Judges. CLAY, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which STRANCH, J., concurred. KETHLEDGE, J. (pp. 15–17), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment. CLAY, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Sandra Hernden brings this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action and First Amendment retaliation claim against the Chippewa Valley School District and two of its board members, Frank Bednard and Elizabeth Pyden, for whom the district court granted summary judgment. For the reasons set forth below, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Sandra Hernden was a police officer at the City of Harper Woods Police Department who had children attending school in the Chippewa Valley School District. Hernden was also a member of “Moms for Liberty,”1 an organiz…
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