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GILL v. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

No. CA 94-0331B.

933 F.Supp. 151 (1996)

Donald GILL, Joseph Carlevale, Sr., Joseph F. Devine, Anthony Almonte, Robert Plante, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, Barbara Leonard in her official capacity as Secretary of State, the members of the General Assembly in their official capacity, Bruce Sundlun in his official capacity as Governor, Joseph Distephano in his capacity as Chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Elections, Guy Dufault in his capacity as Chairman of the Rhode Island State Democratic Committee and John Holmes in his capacity as Chairman of the Rhode Island Republican State Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

July 12, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Gill, West Warwick, RI, pro se.

Joseph Carlevale, Sr., West Greenwich, RI, pro se.

Joseph F. Devine, Providence, RI, pro se.

Robert Plante, West Warwick, RI, pro se.

Anthony Almonte, Cranston, RI, pro se.

Thomas A. Palumbo, Attorney General's Office, Providence, RI, Katherine A. Merolla, Pucci, Golden & Merolla, Providence, RI, Peter P.D. Leach, Updike Kelly and Spellacy, Providence, RI, Anthony Bucci, Robert Fine, Richard Licht, Patrick Guida, Tillinghast, Licht & Semonoff, Providence, RI, Robert E. Craven, Giannini & Craven, Providence, RI, for Defendants.

OPINION

FRANCIS J. BOYLE, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiffs have filed a blunderbuss constitutional challenge to the election laws of the State of Rhode Island. For the following reasons the laws are found to be constitutional.

I. BACKGROUND:

Plaintiffs ran for various public offices in the 1992 Rhode Island general election as "independent" or "unaffiliated" candidates under a collective platform they dubbed Reform '92. Joseph Devine...

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