United States First Circuit

In a suit seeking to enjoin the enforcement of amendments to Rhode Island's statutory scheme banning franchisees and out-of-state residents from holding liquor licenses, decision for defendants is affirmed over plaintiffs' arguments that the statutory amendments violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the dormant commerce clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/20/2007
• Published 03/20/2007

Judges

• SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, 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. and Larisa Law and Consulting, LLC on brief for intervenor-appellee.