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A business-only court yields significant good results for R.I.

HIGH-PROFILE: Associate Justice Michael A. Silverstein has presided over the R.I. Superior Court’s business calendar since its inception in 2001. Ronald J. Capraro Jr., foreground, is being sworn in. / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO
HIGH-PROFILE: Associate Justice Michael A. Silverstein has presided over the R.I. Superior Court’s business calendar since its inception in 2001. Ronald J. Capraro Jr., foreground, is being sworn in. / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Here is a story about a government program that was created in response to a need … and worked. The “business calendar,” a division of R.I. Superior Court that works with business cases exclusively, came into being in 2001 with the idea that by pulling business cases out of the regular stream of court proceedings,

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