Despite media reports to the contrary, Candice Hale, the former Auburn University and University of Alabama (UA) instructor who is suing both schools after being terminated for a social media post following Charlie Kirk's assassination, insists that the settlement offer that her attorney accepted on her behalf with UA was not approved and is invalid. She's asking Northern District Judge Eddie LaCour to "decline to enforce the unsigned settlement agreement."
In a pro se filing, Hale laid out some of her settlement demands, including no future employment bans, "a sit-down meeting with university presidents or deans," and her objection to a non-disclosure agreement clause, "which Plaintiff had explicitly and repeatedly stated she would not accept under any circumstances."
Meanwhile, Hale's former attorney has placed a lien on her for unpaid legal fees totaling over $27,883.
In a ruling Tuesday morning, the same day the Alabama Reflector and AL(dot)com reported that a settlement had been reached, the court gave the university until August 17 to respond to Hale's claim that the settlement is unenforceable. Hale will then have the opportunity to reply to their response by August 27.
Hale's mother, Dana Hale, posted a response to the AL(dot)com settlement to her social media.
"Fake News: If Only This Was True My Daughter Wouldn’t Have To Suffer Going Without Healthcare, Medical, Asking For Help On A Go Fund Me, Al. com If You Didnt Hear From My Daughter Or Her Attorney Then It’s Fake News, You Know The Kind The That Gets Spread Thru Someone Who’s Hating On You For Their Own Reasons…… Prayers For Anybody Who Wish Bad On Someone Downfall My Daughter Has Suffered Enough And Still Suffering, Give Her A Break, She’s s A Strong Black Woman, But She Is Also A Very Sick Woman,And One Day When She Gets The Right To Stand In Front Of These Two Universities ,She Put Her Blood, Sweat And Heart Into, And Win, She Be Glad To Yell Her Win From The Rooftop. But Unfortunately This Isn’t it. Shame On The Crow, That Pulled This Out From The Crack In Their Own Road! Suspicious The First Day Of Trial For Charlie Kirk Attempted Murder For Hire Killer…. It’s Funny That All These Come Out Today Of All Days! lol," the post by Dana Hale said.
Hale's new attorney, Richard Rice, provided a statement to AL(dot)com on Tuesday saying that he hopes the school will still settle without the ban in place for future employment.
“She has over 18 years in education and she really focuses on a lot of social issues she taught in terms of race and gender and intersectionality, so freedom of speech is really important to her,” he said. “With her being a public educator, that’s something that is important to her and is something that should be important to all of us.”
Hale took a break from complaining and soliciting money and gifts through her GoFundMe and Amazon wish list to bash the nation in a new blog post published earlier this week. The GoFundMe has raised $6,370 to date.
"America doesn't deserve to be celebrated. America has yet to reckon with its dark past, including its ugly history of slavery, its reawakening of Jim Crow, and its bloody rebirth during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It never stopped harming its Black and Brown citizens—it only created new iterations of the same systems and called them something else: the drug-to-prison pipeline, police brutality, driving while Black and Brown, redlining, institutional racism—all legal ways to disenfranchise, harm, discriminate, and kill Black and Brown people without due process or punishment," Hale wrote in a post entitled "250 Years and America Is Still Enslaved by White Supremacy."
"As a Black woman living in a conservative red state in Alabama, I see firsthand how political grandstanding and racism dance in a horrible foxtrot that impresses no one," Hale continued.
According to her Facebook page, Hale was a paid employee eligible for benefits from Auburn until mid-May. Court records indicate that the trial for that has been set for 2027 with a pre-trial conference scheduled for April 22, 2027.
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