Jerry N. Rimmer v. Colt Industries Operating Corporation

*325HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

We are asked to decide whether the Missouri service letter statute1 violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Missouri Supreme Court has very recently sustained the statute against a similar challenge.2 The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri ruled that the statute is unconstitutional.3 Rimmer v. Colt Indus. Op. Corp., 495 F.Supp. 1217 (W.D.Mo.1980). We agree with the Supreme Court of Missouri and reverse the judgment of the district court.

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Jerry Rimmer, a Missouri resident, was formerly employed as…