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WALDMAN v. VILLAGE OF KIRYAS JOEL

Docket No. 99-7830.

207 F.3d 105 (2000)

Joseph WALDMAN; Plaintiff-Appellant; v. VILLAGE OF KIRYAS JOEL; Abraham Wieder; Jacob Mittelman; Solomon Wertzberger; Yudel Kahan; Mendel Schwimmer; Gedalye Szegedin, in their official and individual capacities; Defendants-Appellees; Mayer Hirsch; Kiryas Joel Housing Authority; Moses Neuman, in his official and individual capacity; Vaad Hakiryah, of Kiryas Joel, Inc.; Town of Monroe; Orange County Board of Elections; Alexander F. Tredwell, Secretary of State, State of New York; Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 21, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Sussman, Goshen, N.Y. (Stephen Bergstein, Law Offices of Michael H. Sussman, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Gerald A. Novack, New York, N.Y. (Wendy E.D. Smith, Sean R. Sullivan, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Andrew S. Fisher, Fisher, Fisher & Berger, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees Village and Szegedin.

Dennis E.A. Lynch, Nyack, N.Y. (Dorfman, Lynch & Knoebel, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees Wider, Mittelman, Wertzberger, Kahan, and Schwimmer.

Before: WINTER, JACOBS, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Joseph Waldman, a resident of the Village of Kiryas Joel ("Village" or "Kiryas Joel"), brought this suit accusing the Village of excessive entanglement with religion and seeking its dissolution. In a thorough opinion, the district court (Barrington D. Parker, Jr., Judge) concluded that Waldman's suit against defendants-appellees the Village and its officials was barred by res judicata as a result of a prior suit...

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