Montesa v. Schwartz

HALL, Circuit Judge:

I. BACKGROUND

This case is a part of a longstanding conflict within the East Ramapo School District (the “District”) in Rockland County, New York. The Plaintiffs-Appellees (“Student-Plaintiffs”) are students who are currently enrolled in the District’s public school system. They allege that a majority of the East Ramapo School District Board (“School Board”) are of the Orthodox/Ha-sidic Jewish faith or are sympathetic to the interests of the Orthodox/Hasidic Jewish community (“Board Defendants”).1 The Student-Plaintiffs claim that over the last decade the Board Defendants…