United States Second Circuit

The fact that state aid, while enhancing educational quality, coincidentally promotes racial diversity does not require a District Court to consider the payment as funding for a desegregation remedy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2001
• Published 05/23/2001

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, PARKER, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Denise A. Hartman, Asst. Solicitor Gen., Albany, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, N.Y. State Atty. Gen., Nancy A. Spiegel, Asst. Solicitor Gen., Peter H. Schiff, on the brief), for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees., Raymond P. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Birmingham, AL (R. Scott Clark, Fitzpatrick, Cooper & Clark, on the brief), for defendant-appellee-cross-appellant City of Yonkers., Stephen Bergstein, Goshen, N.Y. (Michael H. Sussman, on the brief), for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee Yonkers Branch-NAACP., Steven J. Routh, John Borkowski, John J. Clasby, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC;  Lawrence W. Thomas, Donoghue, Thomas, Auslander & Drohan, Yonkers, NY, submitted a brief for defendant-appellee-cross-appellanttttt Yonkers Board of Education.