Legal Opinion
Take Five Vending, Ltd. v. Town of Provincetown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 8, 1993PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
This case concerns the validity of a by-law of the defendant town of Provincetown that prohibits the sale of cigarettes from vending machines. The plaintiffs, Take Five Vending, Ltd. (Take Five), and Coin Machine Industries Association of Massachusetts, Inc., seek a judgment declaring that the by-law is invalid under the Commonwealth’s licensing statute for cigarette vending machines, G. L. c. 64C, § 2 (1992 ed.), and the Federal and State Constitutions. They also seek to enjoin Provincetown from prohibiting the use of cigarette vending machines. The Attorney General has intervened as a…
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