GANT v. WALLINGFORD BD. OF EDUC.

No. 1765, Docket No. 95-7015.

69 F.3d 669 (1995)

Ray GANT, Jr., Ray Gant, Sr. and Elisa Gant, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WALLINGFORD BOARD OF EDUCATION, Barbara Beecher, Richard Centner, Phyllis Dechello, Mark Moynihan, T. Thomas Murphy, Valerie Nolan, Steve Pickering, John Wooding, Suzanne Wright, George Bozzi, Jr., Donna Lange, Vincent Testa, Dr. Joseph Cirasuolo, Patricia Cronin and Grace Candido, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 26, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Martyn Philpot, Jr., New Haven, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Peter A. Janus, Hartford, CT (Siegel, O'Connor, Schiff & Zangari, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, JACOBS and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.


JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

The complaint in this civil rights action alleges that defendants-appellees the Wallingford Board of Education and various employees of the Wallingford School District discriminated against first-grade student Ray Gant, Jr., by demoting him to kindergarten solely by reason of his race. Plaintiffs-appellants Ray Gant, Jr. and his parents Ray Gant, Sr. and Elisa Gant appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of...

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