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CAVE v. EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DIST.

No. 07 CV 0542(ADS)(MLO).

480 F.Supp.2d 610 (2007)

John CAVE and Nancy Cave as individuals, parents, legal guardians and guardians ad lidem of John Cave Jr. and John Cave Jr., Plaintiffs, v. EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, W. Tresper Clarke High School, Robert R. Dillon as administration of The East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clare High School and Robert R. Dillon individually and personally, Joseph Barbera as administration of The East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clare High School and Joseph Barbera individually and personally, Leon J. Campo as administration of The East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clare High School and Leon J. Campo individually and personally, Timothy Voels as administration of The East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clare High School and Timothy Voels individually and personally, Deborah Coates as President of the Board of Education of East Meadow School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Deborah Coates individually and Personally, Brian O'Flaherty as Vice President of the Board of Education of East Meadow School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Brian O'Flaherty individually and Personally, Debra Kirsh, as Trustee of the Board of Education of East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Debra Kirsh individually and Personally, Judy Shiechel, as Trustee of the Board of Education of East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Judy Shiechel individually and Personally, Walter Skinner, as Trustee of the Board of Education of East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Walter Skinner individually and Personally, Barry Rubinstein, as Trustee of the Board of Education of East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Barry Rubinstein individually and Personally, Joseph Parisi, as TRUSTEE of the Board of Education of East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Joseph Parisi individually and Personally, Geraldine Doddato as Assistant Principal and administration of The East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clare High School and Geraldine Doddato individually and personally, Darryl Strabuk as Assistant Principal and administration of The East Meadow School District and W. Tresper Clare High School and Darryl Strabuk individually and personally, Patrice Dobies as an employee, agent and servant of East Meadow Union Free School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and Patrice Dobies individually and Personally and John Campo as an employee, agent and servant of East Meadow School District and W. Tresper Clarke High School and John Campo individually and Personally, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

March 19, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Margiotta, Lindenhurst, NY, for the Plaintiffs.

Jaspan, Schlesinger & Hoffman, LLP, by Stephen R. Schlesinger, Stanley A. Camhi, Carol A. Melnick, of Counsel, Garden City, NY, for the Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

SPATT, Senior District Judge.

The facts in this case are relatively uncomplicated. This case is about a hearing impaired boy in high school whose family wants him to bring into school and into his classes a dog known as a service dog to assist him in his endeavors and to help train the dog. The school declined to allow the dog into the school on the grounds that the young man is being satisfactorily accommodated already and...

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