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PELLAND v. RHODE ISLAND

C.A. No. 01-454S.

317 F.Supp.2d 86 (2004)

Joseph A. PELLAND, Plaintiff, v. State of RHODE ISLAND, Department of Corrections, and Ashbel T. Wall, II, individually and in his official capacity as the Director of the Rhode Island Department of, Corrections, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

May 7, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Sinapi, Esq., Sinapi Formisano & Coleman Ltd., Cranston, RI, for Plaintiff.

Rebecca Tedford Partington, Esq., Genevieve M. Allaire Johnson, Esq., Attorney General's Office, Providence, RI, for Defendants.

DECISION AND ORDER

SMITH, District Judge.

The right to travel from state to state, though not explicitly guaranteed by the United States Constitution, has long been recognized as a liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. In this case, a convicted sex offender on probation seeks greater freedom of movement than the State of Rhode Island is willing to allow him. The question for this Court is whether Rhode Island's enforcement of a policy...

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