Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al.

Beasley, the first Black director of the prestigious, historically, predominately White male Dallas, Texas nonprofit, “The Society for Information Management” (“SIM”), sued including federal Due Process claims to be reinstated from his public expulsion from its board of directors. SIM indicated it did not want to be in a lawsuit with a director, but a White SIM member who hap­ pened to be an attorney along with insurance-backed lawyers counter-sued Beasley in SIM’s name, without the board authorizing them to do so, to orchestrate a dismissal of Beasley’s lawsuit. The Question Presented Is: Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment through an unconstitutional, specious use of the Vexatious Litigant Statute, where prima facie evidence shows Black people are declared vexatious and their lawsuits were dismissed at a 73% rate more frequent than White people who are found to be vexatious and their lawsuits dismissed over the same 53 month review period.