From Pestrak v. Sawyers, decided last week by the Virginia Court of Appeals (Judge Vernida Chaney, joined by Judges Frank Friedman and Stuart Raphael):
In December 2017, Petrak, who led the "Prince William Committee (PWC) for Quality Education" and had previously pursued recall efforts to oust Sawyers from his Chairman position, publicly responded to a prior 2014 comment made by Sawyers on Facebook. Sawyers had commented on a local librarian's public photograph, referring to her as "[s]uch a LILF." {Sawyers did not dispute that he called the librarian "such a LILF." Petrak maintains the acronym referred to a distasteful innuendo. However, Sawyers testified that LILF meant "Librarian I'd Like to Fund."}
In response, Petrak posted in the public Facebook group, "PWC Education Reform," sharing a series of statements calling Sawyers a "SEXUAL PREDATOR/HARASSER." These statements were accompanied by screenshots of Sawyers's LILF comment, a tweet in which Sawyers thanked Senator Al Franken, and a photograph of Franken engaging in inappropriate conduct.
Petrak's comment reads as follows:
