McKNIGHT v. HAYDEN

Nos. 96 CV 250(NG)(ETB), 97 CV 4480(NG)(ETB).

65 F.Supp.2d 113 (1999)

Seretta C. McKNIGHT and Betty Baldwin, Plaintiffs, v. Carl T. HAYDEN, Chancellor of New York State Board of Regents, Dr. Daniel A. Domenech, George A. Jackson, and Lavinia Dickerson, Defendants. Seretta C. McKnight, Douglas Mills, Barry L. Baldwin, Emily Moore, Dorothy Boxley, Beverly Cunningham, Lilian Jackson, and Irving C. McKnight, Sr., As Residents and Voters of the Roosevelt Long Island, Union Free School District, Plaintiffs, v. State of New York, Defendant.

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

September 10, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armando Montano, Bronx, NY, Edward H. Wolf, of counsel, for plaintiffs in 97 CV 4480.

Robert J. Valli, Jr., Leeds & Morelli, Kew Gardens, NY, for plaintiffs in 96 CV 250.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Robert K. Drinan, of counsel, Mineola, NY, for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

GERSHON, District Judge.

These related cases challenge the constitutionality of legislation, 1995 N.Y.Laws Ch. 145 ("Legislation"), enacted in June 1995 providing for comprehensive intervention in the Roosevelt Union Free School District, located within the town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, and the subsequent removal of plaintiffs Seretta McKnight ("McKnight") and Betty Baldwin ("Baldwin") from the Roosevelt School Board ("School...

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