Legal Opinion
deLeiris Ex Rel. deLeiris v. Scott
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided September 10, 1986No. Civ. A. 85-0181-SPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SELYA, District Judge.
At bottom, this litigation protests what the plaintiffs view as a heavyhanded attempt by the sovereign to infringe the birthrights of newborn children in order to season an ill-considered mess of statistical pottage. The defendants demur. They see themselves as engaged in the routine collection of data for the public good, and unfairly beleaguered by the plaintiffs in the bargain. It falls to the court to outline the dimensions of the litigation and to determine who is harrassing whom.
Since its inception on April 1, 1985, the scope of this suit has been…
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