Reply To: Suing The East Ramapo School Board

Gavra

The Insurance Co. was not defending the Board the last time so they hired their own lawyers. I tend to doubt they would rely on any insurance company again to defend them in any case. The lawyers get paid by the hour so every time the activists file a suit it will cost the board thousands of dollars. This money is a valid board expense.

By the way the Board is appealing the verdict and is trying to get the insurance company to pay the full $2 million legal bill. What they should do is counter sue these activists for the board’s legal fees. This is the one of the ways to get them to stop. If you garnish their wages they may get the idea and stop filing suit.

Also I just read that the state is assigning a monitor to the school district. Let’s see how that goes.

The Board just has to ask (unofficially nothing in writing) the superintendent to plan cuts of $2 million from the public school’s budget to fund the board’s legal expenses for this year. The activist will file suit trying to block these cuts and depending on where the monitor stands the state could be brought into the case. Once they are involved the formula for funding the district can be challenged. In NYC they won a case and were awarded millions in additional funding.