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SACRAMENTO, Ca (Mar. 22,
2006) – A motion for a temporary restraining order staying
the California State Board of Education’s (SBE) March
8, 2006 approval of the February 27th SBE staff recommendations
was denied in California Superior Court in Sacramento on March
21, 2006. A temporary restraining order would have preserved
the status quo and halted the printing of any of the textbooks
until the court has considered the merits of the complaint
in a hearing scheduled for April 21, 2006. The motion was
denied, without a judgment on the merits of the complaint,
based on a declaration submitted by California State Board
of Education (SBE) lawyers that printing had not yet commenced
and would not until mid-May.
“Because today’s denial is not
based on the merits of our case, we are not at all troubled
by it. Based on a declaration provided by the SBE today, printing
of the textbooks has supposedly not begun,” stated Suhag
Shukla, Esq., Legal Counsel for HAF, “However, we find
it curious that the president of the SBE during the March
8th meeting, modified the motion to approve the February 27th
SBE recommendations by stating that any publishers who had
already begun publishing be relieved of the obligation to
make the edits being approved. Her statement seems at odds
with the declaration made today, but considering the haphazard
approach of the SBE to all of this, such inconsistency is
no surprise,” she continued.
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