Legal Opinion
Rhode Island Ass'n of Realtors v. Whitehouse
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 14, 1999No. 99-1812PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Certain public records in Rhode Island are available upon request but come with strings attached. This case concerns one of those strings: the prohibition on using records so obtained for commercial solicitation. See R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-6. Responding to a petition for declaratory and injunctive relief filed by the Rhode Island Association of Realtors (the Association), the district court granted the requested remedies, ruling that the operation of the statute abridged the Association’s right to free expression. See Rhode Island Ass’n of Realtors v. Whitehouse, 51…
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