Case Name: Evan COHN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT and Alan R. Derry, Superintendent of Schools of the New Paltz Central School District, Defendants-Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-10-31
Citations: 204 F. App'x 56
Docket Number: No. 05-2022
Parties: Evan COHN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT and Alan R. Derry, Superintendent of Schools of the New Paltz Central School District, Defendants-Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 204
Pages: 56–56

Head Matter:
Evan COHN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT and Alan R. Derry, Superintendent of Schools of the New Paltz Central School District, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 05-2022.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Oct. 31, 2006.
Alex Smith, Middletown, N.Y. (Robert N. Isseks, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Mark C. Rushfield, Shaw & Perelson, LLP, Highland, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.
Present: PIERRE N. LEVAL, ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and JANET BOND ARTERTON, District Judge.
The Honorable Janet Bond Arterton, United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
In our earlier order in this case we deferred ruling on the School District's motion for Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity as another panel was considering the same issue. That panel has now held that a local Board of Education in New York state cannot claim Eleventh Amendment immunity. Woods v. Rondout Valley Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd of Educ., 466 F.3d 232, at 251, 2006 WL 2891820, at * 16 (2d Cir. Oct.10, 2006). In light of this ruling, the district court's denial of the School District's motion to dismiss based on Eleventh Amendment immunity is AFFIRMED.