United States First Circuit

In a challenge to the State of Rhode Island's regulation of retail liquor licenses, the denial of plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction is affirmed where it failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of its claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/10/2005
• Published 08/10/2005

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, HILL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Evan T. Lawson, with whom Robert J. Roughsedge, Michael Williams, and Lawson & Weitzen, LLP were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rebecca Tedford Partington, Deputy Chief, Civil Division, Department of Attorney General, with whom Patrick C. Lynch, Attorney General, was on brief, for state appellees., Joseph S. Larisa, Jr., with whom Larisa Law and Consulting, LLC was on brief, for intervenor-appellee.