NATIONAL ASS'N OF SOCIAL WORKERS v. HARWOOD

No. 95-1090.

69 F.3d 622 (1995)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. John B. HARWOOD, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 13, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. MacFadyen, Providence, for appellants.

Jeffrey B. Pine, Attorney General, and Alan M. Shoer, Special Assistant Attorney General, Providence, on brief for State of Rhode Island, amicus curiae.

Amy R. Tabor, with whom Hardy Wood Tabor & Chudacoff, Pawtucket, was on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA, CYR and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Over a century ago, Charles Dudley Warner, a nineteenth-century Connecticut journalist, earned a sliver of immortality by coining the phrase "politics makes strange bed-fellows." This appeal, which forges an improbable alliance among such disparate groups as the National Association of Social Workers, the Rhode Island State Rifle and Revolver Association, the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Rhode Island State...

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