Legal Opinion
Bonas v. Town of North Smithfield
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 19, 2001No. 19-1243PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this action for declaratory and injunc-tive relief, four registered voters residing in North Smithfield, Rhode Island (the Town) seek to compel the holding of an election in November of 2001. The plaintiffs claim that the Town’s charter requires such an election and that the refusal of the defendants — the Town and various Town plenipotentiaries — to comply with the charter abridges the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights to vote and to associate. 1 In an effort to parry this thrust, the defendants make four main arguments. First, they question the justification for…
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