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WERLE v. RHODE ISLAND BAR ASS'N

No. 84-1549.

755 F.2d 195 (1985)

Michael WERLE d/b/a Werle Consultants Family Mediation Center, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. RHODE ISLAND BAR ASSOCIATION, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Greenwood, Providence, R.I., with whom McKenna, Greenwood & Feinstein, Providence, R.I., was on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Daniel J. Murray, Providence, R.I., with whom Sean O. Coffey, Robert D. Fine and Letts, Quinn & Licht P.C., Providence, R.I., were on brief for defendant, appellee Rhode Island Bar Ass'n.

Richard B. Woolley, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Dennis J. Roberts, II, Atty. Gen., was on brief for defendants, appellees State of R.I. and Dennis J. Roberts, II.

Before COFFIN and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and MALETZ, Senior Judge.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

The questions involved in this case are whether appellees are state actors and whether they enjoy immunity from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Appellant, Dr. Michael Werle, claims that appellees, the Rhode Island Bar Association and the members of its former Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by sending him a letter requesting that...

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