RHODE IS. HOSPITALITY ASS'N v. CITY OF PROVIDENCE

No. 11-1415.

667 F.3d 17 (2011)

RHODE ISLAND HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION; PRI I, L.P.; PRI XVIII, L.P., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. CITY OF PROVIDENCE, by and through its Treasurer, James J. LOMBARDI, III, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 2, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Brooks , with whom Richard R. Beretta , Jeffrey K. Techentin , Avital R. Chatto , and Adler, Pollock & Sheehan PC were on brief, for appellants.

Anthony F. Cottone , Deputy City Solicitor, with whom Jeffrey M. Padwa , City Solicitor, was on brief, for appellee.

Michael T. Anderson , with whom Murphy Anderson PLLC, Amato A. DeLuca , Jeffrey A. Mega , and DeLuca & Weizenbaum Ltd. were on brief, for Hospitality Employees and Community Organizations, amicus curiae.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, BOUDIN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, 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...

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