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ROJAS v. FITCH

Civ. A. No. 94-0483B.

928 F.Supp. 155 (1996)

Guadalupe ROJAS v. Lawrence FITCH, Individually and in His Capacity as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Employment and Training; The Salvation Army of Rhode Island, Inc., Defendant Intervenor; and Robert Reich, in His Official Capacity as Secretary, United States Department of Labor.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

June 7, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John William Dineen, Yesser, Glasson & Dineen, Providence, RI, for Plaintiff.

Rebecca Tedford Partington, William Kolb, Attorney General's Office, Providence, RI, Everett Samartino, U.S. Attorney's Office, Providence, RI, Scott Glabman, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., Gerard Paul Cobleigh, Cobleigh, Watt, Rock & Giacobbe, Warwick, RI, Florence Barber, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, Patricia Andrews, Providence, RI, for Defendant.

OPINION

FRANCIS J. BOYLE, Senior District Judge.

This action is a constitutional challenge to a federal statute and a Rhode Island statute which operate to exempt religious organizations from the payment of Rhode Island State unemployment taxes. Plaintiff claims that the statutes violate the Establishment Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, as well as, Article I, § 3 of the Rhode Island Constitution. Defendants...

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