Murphy v. Board of Education of the Rochester City School District

DECISION AND ORDER

LARIMER, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

“Parvis e glandibus ' quercus “tall oaks from little acorns grow.” Like the proverbial oak tree, this case has grown from a simple employment dispute over one teacher’s interschool transfer, into a gargantuan, broad-based campaign against an entire school system. Although an oak tree, as a provider of shade and a symbol of strength, might seem an inapt simile for this torturous case, it is fitting in another sense as well, for the mountains of paper that have been expended in this litigation probably amount to a good-sized tree’s worth. It…