MASSACHUSETTS FAIR SHARE, INC. v. TOWN OF ROCKLAND

Civ. A. No. 81-3325-N.

610 F.Supp. 682 (1985)

MASSACHUSETTS FAIR SHARE, INC., and Herbert Regan, Plaintiffs, v. TOWN OF ROCKLAND, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc S. Seigle, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Thomas F. Bowes, Plympton, Mass., for Town of Plympton.

Robert C. Bliss, North Attleboro, Mass., for Town of North Attleboro.

Paul M. Lynch, Asst. Town Counsel, Marblehead, Mass., for Town of Marblehead.

Donald J. Scutiere, Town Counsel, Salem, Mass., for Town of Boxford.

David G. Nagle, Jr., Hanover, Mass., for Town of Hanover.

Philip H. Macchi, Norwood, Mass., Leonard Kopelman, Kopelman & Paige, Boston, Mass., for Town of Walpole.

Thomas P. Crotty, New Bedford, Mass., for Town of Marion.

Ashod N. Amirian, Town Counsel, Haverhill, Mass., for Town of Merrimac.

John H. Flood, Boston, Mass., for Town of Avon.

S. Peter Gorshel, Peabody, Mass., for Town of Lynnfield.

William G. Evans, Evans & Evans, Topsfield, Mass., for Town of Topsfield.

Paul L. Kenny, Town Counsel, Danvers, Mass., for Town of Danvers.

Michael O'Brien, (Town of Salem) Salem, Mass., for Town of Salem (City of Salem).

John J. Vasapolli, Law Office of Usher A. Moren, Lynn, Mass., for Town of Saugus.

A. Stanley Littlefield, Rockland, Mass., for Town of Avon.

David Lee Turner, Boston, Mass., for Town of Rockport.

F. Joseph Geogan, Rockland, Mass., for Town of Rockland.

Richard J. White, Shirley, Mass., for Town of Rockland.

John A. Vitale, Hanson, Mass., for Town of Hanson.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DAVID S. NELSON, District Judge.

This is an action brought by Massachusetts Fair Share, Inc. ("MFS") and its president, Herbert Regan, against eighteen towns in Massachusetts pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for alleged violations of plaintiffs' first amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs assert that each defendant town has an ordinance...

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