SMITH v. HARRIS

Civ. A. Nos. 79-0206 S, 81-0418 S.

560 F.Supp. 677 (1983)

Janet Anne SMITH, Plaintiff, v. Robert L. HARRIS, et al; Defendants. Janet Anne SMITH, Plaintiff, v. Norman CURTIS, et al; Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

March 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roney and Labinger by John Roney, Lynette Labinger, Jean Musiker, Providence, R.I., for plaintiff.

Gorham & Gorham by John Gorham, Edmund L. Alves, Jr., Providence, R.I. and Higgins, Cavanagh & Cooney, Providence, R.I. by Joseph A. Cavanagh, for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

SELYA, District Judge.

These civil actions present grave and important constitutional issues, and simultaneously raise the nefarious spectre of political infiltration where it least belongs—in the public schools. The litigation can best be characterized as acrimonious. It represents the culmination of conflicts (real and imagined) which, over the years, have rent asunder the tranquility of one of Rhode Island's most attractive exurban...

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