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12/17/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where (1) a claim under the Rhode Island Civil Rights Act was brought against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections and (2) the department’s motion for summary judgment on 11th Amendment grounds was denied ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/11/civil-rights-immunity-rhode-island-civil-rights-act/

12/17/2024

A defendant who pleaded guilty to distributing he**in has been denied a writ of error coram nobis despite his claim that he would not have pleaded guilty had his attorney not failed to advise him about the effect of the plea on his eligibility for Social Security retirement benefits.

12/16/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where a petitioner who served 1,170 days has requested compensation for his wrongful conviction and imprisonment, that request should be granted in the amount of ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/11/damages-wrongful-conviction/

12/16/2024

A First Amendment complaint can proceed against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority for refusing to run a controversial advertisement encouraging Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital to cease using live animals to train medical students, a U.S. District Court judge has decided.

12/13/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where a motion to dismiss has been filed based a contractually mandated forum selection clause, that motion should be allowed because the plaintiff has not ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/11/jurisdiction-forum-selection-clause-6/

12/13/2024

A Superior Court judge has decided that a wrongfully convicted petitioner who served three years and 75 days should be awarded $160,273.97.

A Superior Court judge has decided that a wrongfully convicted petitioner who served three years and 75 days should be awarded $160,273.97. On Oct. 13, 2010, the Rhode Island Supreme Court accepted the state’s concession of error and vacated petitioner Alan D. Sampson’s conviction of attempted l...

12/12/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where a hearing committee convened under the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights sustained a charge of insubordination against a plaintiff, that decision ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/11/civil-service-insubordination-leobor/

12/12/2024

An attorney need not withdraw from representing a client in a divorce proceeding despite opposing counsel serving as the probate judge overseeing an unrelated matter in which the attorney represents a different client, the Rhode Island Supreme Court Ethics Advisory Panel has ruled.

12/11/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where the New Shoreham zoning board allowed a fence to be constructed without a permit and then allowed the fence to remain on property adjacent to the plaintiff’s property ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/11/zoning-fence-permit/

12/11/2024

A U.S. magistrate judge has recommended that the government be granted its request to reduce reality TV celebrity Richard H. Hatch Jr.’s unpaid income tax liabilities to a civil judgment.

A U.S. magistrate judge has recommended that the government be granted its request to reduce reality TV celebrity Richard H. Hatch Jr.'s unpaid income tax liabilities to a civil judgment. Hatch, who won $1 million in prize money from the show “Survivor,” was found guilty of filing false personal...

12/10/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where a Minnesota-based manufacturer of a fire suppression system has filed a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, that motion should be denied because ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/10/jurisdiction-out-of-state-manufacturer/

12/10/2024

Lawyers do not see Donald Trump’s return to the White House as posing a serious threat to the composition of local federal courts, with nominations by President Joe Biden as only strengthening existing majorities of Democrat-nominated judges on the benches of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts and the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

12/09/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where plaintiff merchants have brought suit after the defendant failed to comply with an order by the American Arbitration Association to pay more than $17 million in filing fees ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/09/arbitration-stay-filing-fees/

12/09/2024

A defendant’s supervised release could be revoked based on a finding that he slept in the same room with his 15-year-old daughter without a responsible adult in the room, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

12/06/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where the defendants in a family property dispute have moved to enforce a purported settlement agreement, that motion should be denied because the defendants have not ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/03/contract-settlement-agreement-emails/

12/06/2024

A Rhode Island-based employee who brought whistleblower, contract and fraud claims against her Texas employer following her termination will have to arbitrate her claims in Texas, a U.S. District Court judge has decided.

12/05/2024

Opinion of the Day ⚖️ Where a plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that the defendant Thayer Street District Management Authority’s failure to file a continuation petition within the time required by ... CONTINUE: https://rilawyersweekly.com/blog/2024/12/03/municipal-district-management-authority/

12/05/2024

A federal judge has found that three tenants in a federally subsidized building lack standing to challenge a decision by the Department of Housing and Urban Development approving a plan under which developers would build a new apartment building as an addition to the tenants’ building.

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Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly, founded in 1980, reports decisions issued by all the state and federal courts in Rhode Island, as well as changes to court rules, verdict and settlement reports, disciplinary notices and all other news vital to attorneys in the state.