Legal Opinion
Lefrancois v. Rhode Island
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided September 15, 1987No. Civ. A. 87-361 PPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PETTINE, Senior District Judge.
This case presents the question of whether a state may prohibit the disposal of out-of-state waste at a state-subsidized sanitary landfill where no privately owned landfill provides an alternative disposal site for out-of-state waste. Specifically at issue in this case is the constitutional validity of section 23-19-13.1 of the Rhode Island General laws, which imposes criminal sanctions upon any individual found dumping out-of-state waste at the state-subsidized Central Landfill in Johnston, Rhode Island, the sole Rhode Island disposal site for…
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