Judge Rosemary Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at a motion hearing June 26, 2012. Photo: Rick Kopstein
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a strongly worded decision, upheld a lower court’s ruling that the East Ramapo School District’s process for electing its school board members violated the Voting Rights Act.
In a 69-page opinion, a three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court sided with attorneys from Latham & Watkins and the NAACP in finding that the board, which was dominated by a white voting bloc, routinely acted against the interests of public school students, nearly all of whom were Black and Latino.
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