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DUFFY v. QUATTROCCHI

C.A. No. 79-0645 S.

576 F.Supp. 336 (1983)

Reverend Bernard DUFFY and Irwin Becker, Plaintiffs, v. Rocco A. QUATTROCCHI, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

December 5, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Brien & Newton by Mortimer C. Newton, Providence, R.I., for plaintiffs.

Dennis J. Roberts II, Atty. Gen. by Alan R. Tate, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph Dugan, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R.I., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

SELYA, District Judge.

I.

This action was instituted on December 7, 1979 by the plaintiffs, Bernard Duffy and Irwin Becker, against some fourteen members of the Rhode Island State Senate and against Captain John R. Devine, an officer of the Rhode Island State Police. Jurisdiction is premised on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3).

In essence, the suit challenges the validity of an edict informally promulgated...

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