BREWER v. WEST IRONDEQUOIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DIST.

No. 98-CV-6393L.

32 F.Supp.2d 619 (1999)

Laurie A. BREWER and Jodie Foster, Individually and as Parents and Guardians of Jessica L. Haak, a minor, Plaintiffs, v. THE WEST IRONDEQUOIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, the URBAN-Sub-urban Interdistrict Transfer Program, Theresa J. Woodson, Gretchen Stephan, Marlene S. Allen, in their individual and official capacities, Monroe Number One Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Defendants.

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

January 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Wicks, Bansbah, Zoghlin, Asandrov & Wicks, P.C., Rochester, NY, for plaintiffs.

Daniel J. Moore, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Kevin S. Cooman, Peter J. Weishaar, Craig J. Zicari, Zicari, McConville, Cooman, Morin & Welch, Rochester, NY, for defendants.


DECISION AND ORDER

LARIMER, Chief Judge.

The basic issue before the Court is whether a governmental body — a school district — can deny a child the opportunity to participate in a school-sponsored program on account of her race. The answer must be "no." As Justice Lewis Powell said in his opinion for the Supreme Court in Regents of the Univ. of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 289, 98 S.Ct. 2733...

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