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MONTPLAISIR v. LEIGHTON

No. 88-1979.

875 F.2d 1 (1989)

Paul E. MONTPLAISIR, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Richard J. LEIGHTON, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 11, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean-Claude Sakellarios, Manchester, N.H., for plaintiffs, appellants.

Richard C. Nelson with whom Arnold H. Huftalen and Devine, Millimet, Stahl & Branch Professional Ass'n, Manchester, N.H., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH and COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

With apologies to the poet,1 this case is "here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight." But the darkness is more apparent than real: by ignoring the grating roar of partisan rhetoric and concentrating instead on what Congress purposed and what the Court has taught, ample illumination is to be found. In the light of reason and precedent, the district court's dismissal of the action...

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