Tay Anderson Defamation Lawsuit Ruling Fallout

Tay Anderson, vice president of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education, filed a lawsuit last November asserting that he’d been defamed by several individuals and entities that had accused him of sexual misconduct: the advocacy organization BLM 5280, which first broached the subject on behalf of an unnamed woman in March 2021; volunteer boardmember Amy Brown; parent Mary Katherine Brooks-Fleming, who’d told a Colorado Legislature committee that an official later identified as Anderson had allegedly assaulted more than sixty students; and Jeeva Senthilnathan, an activist based in Parker.

In September, an independent report said it could not substantiate these claims, which Anderson had consistently denied, but chastised him for some of his behavior on social media. And last…