Mason v. General Brown Central School District

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs C. Edgar Mason, individually and as guardian for his son, Jered Mason, and Karen L. Mason, appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York after a bench trial before Howard G. Munson, Chief Judge, dismissing the complaint. Plaintiffs’ action sought to compel *49defendants to permit plaintiffs’ son, based on his own and his parents’ religious beliefs, to attend public school without being immunized as required by New York law. Finding that plaintiffs’ opposition to immunization was not religiously…