Ragusa v. Malverne Union Free School District
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
549 F. Supp. 2d 288 (2008)
- Written by Jennifer Flinn, JD
Facts
Biljana Ragusa (plaintiff) was a high-school math teacher at Malverne Union Free School District (defendant). Ragusa filed a lawsuit against the school district alleging disability discrimination after the school district failed to grant Ragusa tenure. Ragusa filed a motion to compel the school district to produce documents containing student academic performance within the high-school math department. The school district argued that the documents were irrelevant to Ragusa’s claims and that the documents were protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Ragusa argued that the documents could be redacted to protect identifiable information for the students and would allow Ragusa to prove that the school district’s reasoning for denying her tenure was pretextual.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Tomlinson, J.)
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