GRUMET v. BD. OF EDUC.


187 A.D.2d 16 (1992)

Louis Grumet, Individually and as Executive Director of The New York State School Boards Association Inc., et al., Respondents, v. Board of Education of the Kiryas Joel Village School District et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 31, 1992


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, D.C. (Lisa D. Burget of counsel, and George Shebitz, P. C., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for Board of Education of the Kiryas Joel Village School District, appellant.

Ingerman, Smith, Greenberg, Gross, Richmond, Heidelberger, Reich & Scricca, Northport (Lawrence W. Reich of counsel), for Board of Education of the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District, appellant.

Jay Worona, Albany (Pilar Sokol of counsel), for New York State School Boards Association, respondent.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General, Albany (Julie S. Mereson and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), in his statutory capacity under Executive Law § 71.

Bernard F. Ashe, Albany (Gerard John De Wolf of counsel), for New York State United Teachers, amicus curiae.

Marc D. Stern and Lois C. Waldman, New York City, for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae.

Stanley Geller, New York City (Lisa Thurau of counsel), for Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty, amicus curiae.

MERCURE, MAHONEY and HARVEY, JJ., concur with CASEY, J.; LEVINE, J. P., dissents in a separate opinion.


CASEY, J.

The Laws of 1989 (ch 748) (hereinafter chapter 748) created a new school district, the Kiryas Joel Village School District (hereinafter the Village District), consisting of the territory of the Village of Kiryas Joel (hereinafter the Village), a community of Satmarer Hasidim located wholly within the boundaries of the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District (hereinafter the Monroe-Woodbury District...

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