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COURTEMANCHE v. ENLARGED CITY SCHOOL DIST.

No. 87 Civ. 8370 (GLG).

686 F.Supp. 1025 (1988)

Robert C. COURTEMANCHE, Plaintiff, v. The ENLARGED CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF the CITY OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK; the Board of Education of the Enlarged City School District of the City of Middletown, New York; Carole Hankin, Martin A. Dlugatz, Oscar Sotsky, Paul Johnson, Edward B. Godwin, Edith Weiss, Thomas S. Grecco, Evelyn Isseks, John L. Masi, Joseph P. Moran and George Sands Individually and as Members or Former Members of the Board of Education of the Enlarged City School District of the City of Middletown, New York, Defendants.

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

May 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Hara & Crough, Syracuse, N.Y. by Craig P. Niederpruem, of counsel, Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, N.Y. by Lawrence T. D'Aloise, of counsel, for plaintiff.

Plunkett & Jaffe, P.C., White Plains, N.Y. by John M. Donoghue, Lawrence Praga, of counsel, for defendants.

OPINION

GOETTEL, District Judge:

This is another in a growing line of cases finding their way to this court based on substantially similar claims and facts—civil rights claims deriving from the firing of local school officials. In an effort to clear the air as to at least certain of the preliminary legal questions that seem consistently to recur in these cases, we address some of the questions raised by the pending motion in depth.

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