Trial to Begin for Fired Intern Who Shared Faith | Christianpost.com

re: "...Represented by attorneys with Watkins & Casaudoumecq, LLP, a general civil litigation firm in Costa Mesa, former graduate student at California State University-Long Beach (CSULB) Jacqueline Escobar will go to court over a lawsuit she filed against CSULB and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) that claims she was wrongly fired over religious reasons. / Escobar was working with DCFS as an intern children's social worker, and was given the job, in part, for her straight-A record. Her employers confronted the former CSULB graduate when they found that she had been sharing her Christian faith during lunch breaks and after hours and putting on a shirt that read “Found” after she had signed out for the day. /Both the DCFS and the CSULB collaborated together and came up with a “performance contract” that would ask that Escobar refrain from communicating her faith to others, even during non-working hours. Her managers asked for her to sign the document, and when the intern refused, she was terminated from her position. / "Through this case, we hope to send a powerful message to government employers: you cannot trounce upon the First Amendment rights of people of faith and expect to get away with it,” expressed Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute, which Watkins & Casaudoumecq is affiliated with. “Needless to say, we are glad to have one of our top affiliate attorneys, Dan Watkins, spearheading this case."..."...