Legal Opinion
Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District v. Arthur R. Pontarelli, Commissioner of Education for Rhode Island
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 4, 1986No. 85-1459PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 “prevailing parties” under the terms of 42 U.S.C. § 1988 in their § 1983 action against the Commissioner. 2 The complaint alleged that the Commissioner violated the first and fourteenth amendments of…
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