Fireside Nissan, Inc. v. Daniel P. Fanning, Director, Department of Transportation for State of Rhode Island

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Rhode Island’s automobile dealership law allows existing dealers within a twenty-mile radius of a proposed new dealership to protest the establishment of the new dealership. The issue raised by this appeal concerns situations in which, by reason of a proposed new dealership in proximity to the state border, a part of that twenty-mile radius falls outside of Rhode Island. State officials have taken the position that within the twenty-mile area surrounding a proposed new dealership, only the dealers who are located inside Rhode Island’s borders are covered by Rhode…