Attorneys for both sides in a federal lawsuit filed against the Kearsarge Regional School District by a Nashua resident claiming her First Amendment rights were violated during a school board meeting last summer have agreed to a 31-day pause in the proceedings, in hopes the matter can be resolved.

The lawsuit, filed by attorneys from the Institute for Free Speech, along with local counsel Roy S. McCandless, claims Beth Scaer’s First Amendment rights were violated when she was “silenced and threatened with police intervention” after referring to a transgender athlete on a girls soccer team as a “tall boy” during the Aug. 29, 2024, meeting of the Kearsarge Regional School District.

The lawsuit says Scaer attended the meeting to speak out against transgender athletes in girls high school sp

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