BOSTON'S CHILDREN FIRST v. CITY OF BOSTON

No. C.A. 99-11330-NG.

98 F.Supp.2d 111 (2000)

BOSTON'S CHILDREN FIRST, Ann F. Walsh, President, Nicholas Anderson, a minor by his parent and next friend, Ellen Dowd, John P. Feeney, Jr., a minor, by his parents and next friends, Ena Feeney and John Feeney, Michael Gattozzi, a minor, by his parents and next friends, Joseph Gattozzi and Patrice Gattozzi, Jamie Lee Higgins, a minor, by her parents and next friends, Kerry Ann Higgins and Joseph Higgins, Kayleigh Barry-Meltzer, a minor, by her parents and next friends, Cathleen Barry and George Meltzer, John K. O'Toole, a minor, by his parents and next friends, John O'Toole and Rose O'Toole, Kathleen McCoy, a minor, by her parents and next friends, Carol McCoy and John McCoy, Andrew Sharaffa, a minor, by his parents and next friends, David Sharaffa and Mae Sharaffa, Sean J. Stoddard and Thomas E. Stoddard, minors, by their parents and next friends, Mary K. Stoddard and Stephen Stoddard, for themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF BOSTON, Thomas Menino, Mayor of the City of Boston Thomas Payzant, Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, the Boston School Committee, Elizabeth Reilinger, Dr., Boston School Committee Chairperson, Alfreda J. Harris, School, Committee Vice-Chairperson Felix D. Arroyo, School Committee Member, Robert Gittens, School Committee Member, Susan Naimark, School Committee Member, Marchelle Raynor, School Committee Member, William Spring, School Committee Member, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 19, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester Darling, Boston, MA, for Plaintiffs.

Frances S. Cohen, Diane Dilanni, Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, Merita A. Hopkin, City of Boston Law Dept., Boston, MA, for Defendants.

Joel Z. Eigerman, Roche, Carens & DeGiacomo, P.C., Boston, MA, for Interested Party.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GERTNER, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this action are a self-described membership and advocacy organization, Boston's Children FIRST ("FIRST"),1 and ten white school children, each of whom has applied for, and been denied, his or her school assignment of choice in the Boston Public Schools.2 They allege that they have been deprived of their preferred school assignments...

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