Ripple effect expected from legal challenge of shoreline law

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LINE IN THE SAND: Monica Teixeira de Sousa, a professor at the Roger Williams University School of Law, says the lawsuit against Rhode Island’s new shoreline access law has the potential to create a precedent that will either inspire similar challenges or have a chilling effect on other coastal property owners. 
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LINE IN THE SAND: Monica Teixeira de Sousa, a professor at the Roger Williams University School of Law, says the lawsuit against Rhode Island’s new shoreline access law has the potential to create a precedent that will either inspire similar challenges or have a chilling effect on other coastal property owners. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY  

It came as a surprise to few when, soon after shoreline access advocates celebrated the law’s passage in June, a group of coastal property owners filed a lawsuit challenging the legislation that advocates say solidifies a long-held right. “With these types of cases where you have private property owners who have waterfront property, there are

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