WARDEN v. PATAKI

No. 97 Civ. 7027(MBM).

12 F.Supp.2d 325 (1998)

Lawrence A. WARDEN, Robert Jackson, Raisa Castillo, Edwin Peters, Robert Lizardo, Louisa Chan, Venice Anglero, Martha Espinal, individually and pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Plaintiffs, v. George PATAKI, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Defendants.

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

July 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Wolf, New York, NY, for plaintiffs.

Michael Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Andrew Jones, Jeffrey Friedlander, Georgia Pestana, Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York, NY, for Municipal Defendants.

BEFORE: KEARSE, Circuit Judge, and BLOCK and MUKASEY, District Judges.


OPINION AND ORDER

MUKASEY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this case have launched a broad frontal attack on the current system of governance for New York City's public schools, alleging that the manner of selecting members of the central Board of Education (the "Board"), and the allocation of power between the Board and community school boards, violate numerous statutes and constitutional provisions. However, this opinion concerns only one prong of that attack...

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