Legal Opinion
Woods v. Rondout Valley Central School District Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 10, 2006No. Docket No. 05-1080-CVPublishedCited by 267 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAGGI, Circuit Judge:
On this appeal, we consider whether defendant Rondout Valley Central School District Board of Education is an arm of the State of New York entitled to claim Eleventh Amendment immunity. We conclude that it is not.
I. Factual Background
The background facts that follow are taken from the complaint. Plaintiff Harold Woods was first employed as a per diem substitute teacher at Rondout Valley Central High School in September 1999, two months shy of his sixty-ninth birthday. A few years later, in April 2003, Woods published what he describes as “a fact-based and informative…
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