Legal Opinion
Houlton Citizens' Coalition v. Town of Houlton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 22, 1999No. 98-1999PublishedCited by 241 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This litigation has its genesis in a waste management scheme devised by the town fathers of Houlton, Maine (the Town). The appellants claim that Houlton’s plan — • under which the Town by contract designated a single firm as the exclusive hauler of residential waste within its borders, and enacted a flow-control ordinance directing all such waste either to be collected by that firm or to be brought to its transfer station — violates the Commerce Clause, the Takings Clause, the Contract Clause, and the town charter. The district court rejected these importunings. We affirm…
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