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ABDULLAH v. COMMISSIONER OF INS. OF COM. OF MASS.

No. 95-2316.

84 F.3d 18 (1996)

Basimah R. ABDULLAH, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE OF the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack E. Robinson, with whom Carpenter & Robinson, LLP, was on brief, for appellants.

Judith Fabricant, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, E. Michael Sloman and Meyer, Connolly, Sloman & MacDonald, Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs mounted a facial challenge to the constitutionality of the Massachusetts statute requiring the Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance to establish at least fifteen territories for use in classifying risks for setting automobile insurance rates. Mass.Gen. L. ch. 175E, § 4(d). It is claimed this requirement is irrational on its face and thus violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs also assert...

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