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RHODE ISLAND ASS'N OF REALTORS, INC. v. WHITEHOUSE

No. 99-1812.

199 F.3d 26 (1999)

RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, INC., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Sheldon WHITEHOUSE, Attorney General for the State of Rhode Island, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 14, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca Tedford Partington, Asst. Attorney General, with whom Brenda A. Doyle, Special Asst. Attorney General, was on brief, for appellant.

Mark W. Freel, American Civil Liberties Union, Rhode Island Affiliate, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

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...

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