A judge recently issued a ruling in favor of former Bullard High School football coach Don Arax in his defamation lawsuit against Fresno Unified School District and Keshia Thomas, a trustee who’s running for city council.
However, Fresno Unified — the state’s third-largest school district — is now pushing back against Arax’s discovery requests, which it said in a legal filing are “burdensome and harassing.”
Arax sued the district and Thomas in 2022 after the trustee went on a local podcast and said the coach used a racial slur years ago, directed at her son. Arax denied the incident, which allegedly happened at a football camp in 2013 when Thomas’ son was in middle school, and filed the lawsuit…