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LANTZ BY LANTZ v. AMBACH

No. 85 Civ. 7735 (LLS).

620 F.Supp. 663 (1985)

Jacqueline LANTZ, by her Next Friend, Lucille LANTZ, Plaintiff, v. Gordon M. AMBACH, individually and as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education; and Martin C. Barell, Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, R. Carlos Carballada, Vice Chancellor of the Board of Regents, Willard A. Genrich, Chancellor Emeritus of the Board of Regents, Jorge L. Batista, Shirley C. Brown, Kenneth B. Clark, Laura Bradley Chodos, Thomas H. Frey, Norma Gluck, Emlyn I. Griffith, Mimi Lieber, Floyd S. Linton, Louise P. Matteoni, James W. McCabe, J. Edward Meyer, Salvatore J. Sclafani, individually and as members of the New York State Board of Regents; and the Board of Education of Yonkers, New York; and the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

October 30, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New York Civil Liberties Union, White Plains, N.Y., for plaintiff; Virginia Knaplund, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants Gordon Ambach, Com'r of the N.Y. State Dept. of Educ. and N.Y. State Bd. of Regents; Stanley A. Camhi, Randolph Volkell, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel.

Anderson, Banks, Moore, Curran & Hollis, Yonkers, N.Y., for The Bd. of Educ. of Yonkers, N.Y.; Maurice F. Curran, Lawrence W. Thomas, of counsel.

McGivern, Shaw & O'Connor, Scotia, N.Y., for the N.Y. State Public High School Athletic Ass'n, Inc.; Ronald R. Shaw, of counsel.

STANTON, District Judge.

Plaintiff Jacqueline Lantz, a 16-year-old healthy female student in her junior year at Lincoln High School, Yonkers, New York wants to play football. Lincoln High School has no girls' football team, so she attempted to try out for the junior varsity football squad. Her attempts were blocked by a regulation promulgated by the defendant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education under the authority of the defendant members of...

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