TAYLOR v. BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DIST.

Docket No. 97-7481.

143 F.3d 679 (1998)

Charles B. TAYLOR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BRENTWOOD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT; Board of Education, Brentwood Union Free School District; Anthony Felico, in his capacity as a member of the Board of Education, Brentwood UFSD; Ruth Rosenthal, in her capacity as a member of the Board of Education, Brentwood UFSD; Steven Coleman, in his capacity as a member of the Board of Education, Brentwood UFSD; Frank Cannon, in his capacity as a member of the Board of Education, Brentwood UFSD; Mary Reid, in her capacity as a member of the Board of Education, Brentwood UFSD; Owen McCaffrey, in his capacity as a member of the Board of Education, Brentwood UFSD; Jaime Suarez, in his capacity as a member of the Board of Education, Brentwood UFSD; Frank Mauro, in his capacity as Superintendent of Schools, Brentwood UFSD; Rosemary Townley, Dr., in her capacity as a member of the Disciplinary Hearing Panel; Thomas Caramore, Dr., in his capacity as a member of the Disciplinary Hearing Panel, Defendants, Anne Rooney, in her capacity as Acting Principal, South Middle School, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harriet A. Gilliam, Aquebogue, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Robert J. Ciovacco, Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, East Meadow, NY (Jeannine A. Broomhall, Neil H. Angel, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant.

Before: MINER, PARKER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Anne E. Rooney appeals from a money judgment entered in favor of plaintiff-appellee Charles B. Taylor in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Spatt, J.), following a jury trial. Taylor prevailed on his claim, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that his one-year suspension from teaching constituted race discrimination violative of his equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment...

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