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Vernet v. Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District

343 F. Supp. 2d 186 (2004)

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Vernet v. Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
343 F. Supp. 2d 186 (2004)

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Facts

Steven Vernet (plaintiff) sued the Bellmore-Merrick High School District (Bellmore-Merrick) (defendant) in federal district court, claiming Bellmore-Merrick’s two-tiered method for choosing board members violated the one person, one vote principle of the Fourteenth Amendment. Bellmore-Merrick oversaw the administration of the district’s high schools and middle schools. Four local elementary school districts, consisting of widely varying populations, were governed by individual school boards whose members were popularly elected. Each elementary school district’s school board appointed two members to make up the eight-member Bellmore-Merrick board. Vernet claimed that the process by which the Bellmore-Merrick board members were appointed violated the Fourteenth Amendment, arguing that the votes of the more populous elementary school districts were diluted because they received the same number of Bellmore-Merrick appointments as the smaller school districts. Bellmore-Merrick filed a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted. Bellmore-Merrick argued the one person, one vote protections of the Fourteenth Amendment were limited to claims resulting from board elections, not board appointments.

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Holding and Reasoning (Platt, J.)

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