State of Ridgeway v. Lx1nas III

Disposition

Judgment of the Superior Court located at 1 R. Supp. 1 and 1 R. Supp. 3, vacated and remanded. Powell, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which Burger, C. J., Jackson, J., Thomas, J., and Gorsuch, J. joined.

Unanimous Court

Summary

On certiorari (the third petition in this ongoing litigation over 7 R. Stat. §301, which classified persons wearing cat ears or a fake tail as "wildlife" barred from possessing weapons), the Court holds the Superior Court abused its discretion by issuing a permanent injunction without applying the eBay Inc. v. MercExchange four-factor test and by overbroadly enjoining all of Section 3 of the Wildlife Conservation Act. The Court adopts the federal cases-and-controversies doctrine under Rid. Const. Art. V, §IV and the federal permanent-injunction standard, resolves the case on equitable grounds, and does not reach the constitutional question; the injunction is vacated and the case remanded for narrower relief.