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FONTES v. CITY OF CENTRAL FALLS

C.A. No. 09-437 S.

660 F.Supp.2d 244 (2009)

Hipolito FONTES, Plaintiff, v. The CITY OF CENTRAL FALLS; The City of Central Falls Board of Canvassers and Registration; Gertrude Chartier, in her official Capacity as Registrar of the City of Central Falls Board of Canvassers; Alfred Gregorie, in his official Capacity as a Chairman of the City of Central Falls Board of Canvassers; Melvin Goldenberg, in his official capacity as Clerk of the City of Central Falls Board of Canvassers; Rosemarie Canavan, in her official capacity as a Member of the City of Central Falls Board of Canvassers; Charles D. Moreau, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

October 8, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armando E. Batastini, Esq., Timothy K. Baldwin, Esq., Nixon Peabody LLP., Providence, RI, for Plaintiff.

Elizabeth M. Noonan, Esq., Adam M. Ramos, Esq., Adler Pollock & Sheehan, PC., Providence, RI, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM E. SMITH, District Judge.

Aspiring mayoral candidate Hipolito Fontes ("Fontes" or "Plaintiff") appears before the Court three signatures shy of having his name placed on the ballot of an otherwise uncontested race in the City of Central Falls. After having sixty-five signatures deemed invalid on his nomination papers pursuant to Art. VI, § 6-110 of the Central Falls City Charter (the first to file rule), Fontes filed...

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