Successful federal lawsuit challenging a town’s decision not to hold regularly-scheduled local elections in 2001, relying on the results of a 1998 referendum which authorized a change in town elections from odd to even numbered years “beginning in the year 2002.”
Bonas v. Town of North Smithfield
Attorney(s)
Howard Merten
Date filed
March 28, 2001
Status
Closed
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