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COLES v. CLEVELAND BD. OF EDUC.

No. 1:92-CV-2767.

950 F.Supp. 1337 (1996)

Sarah E. COLES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CLEVELAND BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

December 17, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua R. Cohen, Daniel E. Anker, Kohrman, Jackson & Krantz, Cleveland, OH, Kevin F. O'Neill, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, OH, William M. Saks, Cleveland Heights, OH, Joan M. Englund, American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Cleveland, OH, J. Lewis Madorsky, Law Offices of J. Lewis Madorsky & Company, Cleveland, OH, for Sarah E. Coles, Gene T. Tracy, plaintiffs.

John R. Climaco, Richard M. Knoth, Climaco, Climaco, Seminatore, Lefkowitz & Garofoli, Cleveland, OH, for Cleveland Board of Education, defendant.

Sharon A. Jennings, James G. Tassie, Office of the Attorney General, Education Section, Columbus, OH, for John M. Goff, defendant.

Jerome F. Weiss, Cleveland, OH, for Anti-Defamation League, amicus.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DOWD, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Sarah E. Coles, a former student in the Cleveland Public Schools, and Gene T. Tracy, a Cleveland public school teacher, filed this action against the Cleveland Board of Education ("the board") and John M. Goff, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Ohio, alleging that the board's practice of opening meetings with a prayer or a moment of silence violates the federal...

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