An Arizona teacher is suing the Phoenix Union High School District (PXU) and its governing board and superintendent for requiring that students and employees wear masks indoors in defiance of state law. Douglas Hester, who teaches biology at Metro Tech High School, filed the lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Aug. 2, the same day the district’s mask mandate went into effect. A superior court judge heard arguments on Aug. 4 on whether the school district has legal authority to impose the mask mandate. Hester’s attorney Alexander Kolodin said the defendants raised a “constitutional argument.” “[T]hey say they’re preserving it. The judge was very skeptical,” he added. “I basically went in and called their bluff,” Kolodin told The Epoch Times, adding that the defendants’ main argument was over when the state law goes into effect: in late September or retroactively from June 30 because the legislation included a …