EXETER-WEST GREENWICH REGIONAL SCH. v. PONTARELLI

No. 85-1459.

788 F.2d 47 (1986)

EXETER-WEST GREENWICH REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Arthur R. PONTARELLI, Commissioner of Education For Rhode Island, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forrest L. Avila, Warren, R.I., for defendants, appellants.

Edmund L. Alves, Jr., with whom Bradford Gorham and Gorham & Gorham, Inc., Providence, R.I., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School Dist.

Amy R. Tabor, Pawtucket, R.I., for plaintiff, appellee William Haas.

Before COFFIN, BOWNES and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Defendants, Commissioner and Associate Commissioner of Education of the State of Rhode Island (Commissioner)1, appeal from an order of the district court requiring them to pay attorney's fees to plaintiffs, the Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District (School District) of Rhode Island and a taxpayer resident of that district. The district court found plaintiffs to be...

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