Legal Opinion
Moderate Party of Rhode Island v. Lynch
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided February 9, 2011No. CA. 10-265 SPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
WILLIAM E. SMITH, District Judge.
In this case the fledgling Moderate Party of Rhode Island (“Moderate Party” or “MPRI”) continues its efforts to nibble at the two-party structure of Rhode Island’s election laws. But the Moderate Party’s partial success in knocking down one of the two barriers to party recognition in Block v. Mollis, 618 F.Supp.2d 142 (D.R.I.2009), does not repeat here for the reasons explained below.
Moderate Party filed a motion to preliminarily enjoin the distribution of funds from the “nonpartisan account” under Rhode Island General Laws § 44-30-2(d)(2)…
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