Fontes v. City of Central Falls

OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM E. SMITH, District Judge.

Aspiring mayoral candidate Hipólito Fontes (“Fontes” or “Plaintiff’) appears before the Court three signatures shy of having his name placed on the ballot of an otherwise uncontested race in the City of Central Falls. After having sixty-five signatures deemed invalid on his nomination papers pursuant to Art. VI, § 6-110 of the Central Falls City Charter (the first to file rule), Fontes filed suit against the City of Central Falls, the City of Central Falls Board of Canvassers and Registration, Gertrude Chartier, Alfred Gregorie, Melvin…