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RUSSMAN v. BOARD OF EDUC., CITY OF WATERVLIET

Docket No. 00-7612.

260 F.3d 114 (2001)

Colleen RUSSMAN, a child with disabilities, by her parents, Patricia and Paul RUSSMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE ENLARGED CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF WATERVLIET, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. August Term, 2000.

Decided: August 3, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy M. Maurer, Esq., Civil Rights and Disabilities Law Project, Albany Law School, Albany, NY, for plaintiff-appellant Russman.

Jay Worona, Esq., New York State School Boards Association, Albany, NY, (Stephen F. Bailly, Esq., Hicks & Bailly, Pilar Sokol, Esq., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

James R. Sheldon, Jr., Esq., Neighborhood Legal Services, Buffalo, NY, (Ronald M. Hager, Esq., Jonathan Feldman, Esq., Public Interest Law Office of Rochester, Rochester, New York, on the brief), for amicus curiae Western New York Disability Law Coalition.

David Zwiebel, Esq., Agudath Israel of America, New York, NY, (Eytan A. Kobre, on the brief), for amicus curiae Agudath Israel of America.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, POOLER, Circuit Judge, and HALL, District Judge.

JOHN M. WALKER, Jr., Chief Judge:

Plaintiff Colleen Russman appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Ralph W. Smith, Jr., Magistrate Judge) granting a motion for summary judgment by defendant Board of Education of the Enlarged City School District of the City of Watervliet ("the Board") and dismissing the complaint. On appeal, Russman argues that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the...

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