A Lehighton Area School District director is asking a judge to order a former president of the school board to remove certain language from her lawsuit against him.

David Bradley Sr. submitted preliminary objections on Jan. 8 to the amended civil complaint filed against him in December by Gloria Bowman.

According to the court filing, Bradley wants Bowman to “remove all scandalous and impertinent material, specifically the words ‘assaults’ and ‘unhinged.’ ”

“These words serve no purpose but to cast Bradley in a negative light and should be removed,” Bradley’s lawyer, Charles Kendikian of Lansdale, wrote.

Bowman previously filed a suit against the Carbon County Independent Gazette, which resulted in a settlement before trial.

According to a copy of the settlement, the Gazette paid Bowman $5,000.

Bowman also paid for a statement in the Times News in which the Gazette stated it “regretted publishing any statements that inferred Bowman had any connection or relationship with the alleged wrongdoing of Matt Fisher, a former teacher in the district, and at no time ever implied that she did.”

Fisher, who was also an adviser to the National Honor Society at the time, resigned his position with the school district in 2015 after he was arrested and eventually pleaded guilty to one count of corruption of minors.

The affidavit charges that Fisher became involved in a friendship with a student and between July 28 and Aug. 5, 2014, they communicated through multiple text messages. On two separate occasions, Fisher allegedly sent the teen inappropriate sexual messages. Fisher received probation for the offense.

In Bradley’s preliminary objections to the most recent lawsuit, he pointed out the settlement also released him from liability for any publications made by the Gazette before the settlement date.

Bowman’s complaint refers to Bradley as the head of the Carbon County Independent Gazette’s “business development” and a contributing writer for the publication.

“Bowman has muddled the new allegations with those made in the prior case, in an attempt to imply some sort of breach of the prior settlement … even though no liability or misdeeds by Bradley in the prior case were established,” Kendikian wrote. “The fact that these alleged publications are barred from further litigation means their inclusion in the current complaint can serve no purpose other than to cast Bradley in a negative light.”

In her complaint, Bowman alleges Bradley has “pursued a relentless campaign of outrageous and offensive statements against her.”

“(Bradley’s) unhinged determination to continue to traffic in this type of contumely by recklessly publishing these ongoing outrageous remarks about a woman such as (Bowman), who has worked with children in the community as an educator and administrator, goes beyond mere criticism of her in her former capacity as a public official,” Bowman’s complaint states.

“Bradley filmed his often hostile disruptions of school board meetings and made edited, shortened versions of them available to the public on the website, YouTube,” the complaint continues.

“While (Bradley may no longer enjoy having the Carbon County Independent Gazette as his preferred vessel of defamatory communications, he has nevertheless continued his previous assaults through more personal modes of communication,” the suit says.

Serving as school board president at the time, Bowman lost her bid for re-election in 2017. In the same election, Bradley was victorious in his bid for a board seat.

Bowman’s three-count suit seeks damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress; libel and slander; and invasion of privacy/false light.

Compensatory damages in excess of $50,000 and punitive damages are sought. A jury trial is demanded.

Attorney Donald P. Russo of Easton filed the complaint.