Legal Opinion
Rhode Island Hospitality Ass'n v. City of Providence Ex Rel. Lombardi
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 2, 2011No. 11-1415PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*23LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This case presents the issue of the constitutionality of an ordinance of the City of Providence requiring that, when there is a change in the identity of a hospitality employer, that employer must retain its predecessor’s employees, subject to some conditions, for a three-month period. Plaintiffs, in their request for a pre-enforcement declaratory judgment that the ordinance is unlawful, contend that the ordinance is pre-empted under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and violates the Equal Protection Clause and the Contract Clause. The district court rejected…
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