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First Amendment suit filed in Lawrence school closure

Parents of public school children in the Lawrence School District filed a federal civil rights suit against the district Tuesday claiming the Orthodox Jewish majority on the school board have violated the First Amendment rights of parents and their children.

The parents say in a suit filed in the Eastern District of New York that the board of education has "unlawfully made laws and public...

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