Civil rights activist Mitchell Kahle and his friend Kevin Hughes filed a Circuit Court lawsuit Friday against former Senate President Colleen Hanabusa over Kahle’s ouster from the State Capitol after he objected to opening the Senate session with a prayer.

Kahle and Hughes reached a $100,000 settlement earlier this year with the state in their lawsuit against Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Ben Villaflor, his subordinates and sheriff’s deputies.

Kahle was arrested in connection with the April 2010 incident, but later acquitted of a disorderly conduct charge. Hughes video recorded Kahle protesting the prayer and said several Sergeant-at-Arms employees attacked him and broke his camera.

Friday’s suit is against Hanabusa, who was Senate President at the time.

Richard Rapoza, a spokesman for Hanabusa, who is now a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, said they have not seen the lawsuit and cannot comment without reading it.