Tag: R.I. Supreme Court
McKee unveils 6 picks for revamped CRMC. Critics are underwhelmed.
Three lawyers, two former state lawmakers and an entrepreneur whose business ventures include a word game app and organic salad dressings are Gov. Daniel...
Shekarchi faces ethics complaint over Supreme Court ambitions
PROVIDENCE – A Roger Williams University law professor has filed an ethics complaint against former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, accusing the lawmaker of...
Shekarchi resigns as R.I. House speaker ‘to humbly pursue a different...
PROVIDENCE – House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi has resigned his speakership to pursue the R.I. Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Associate...
House Speaker Shekarchi will step down to seek R.I. Supreme Court...
PROVIDENCE – House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi plans to step down to pursue the R.I. Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Associate...
R.I. Supreme Court rules PACE not eligible for East Providence tax...
EAST PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Supreme Court ruled this week that the PACE Organization of Rhode Island, a nonprofit providing insurance and care to...
Connecticut lawyer agrees to be disbarred in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – A Connecticut lawyer that has been accused of professional misconduct in a Westerly real estate transaction that closed last fall has voluntarily...
Supreme Court Associate Justice Goldberg to retire in March
PROVIDENCE – After more than three decades on the state's highest bench, R.I. Supreme Court Associate Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg announced she will be...
Law license of R.I. immigration attorney accused of fraud temporarily suspended
PROVIDENCE – The law license of a Rhode Island immigration attorney and former judge who was accused of professional misconduct after allegedly defrauding 10...
State’s ‘relevant market area law’ extends past border, R.I. Supreme Court...
Can a “relevant market area” in Rhode Island’s general law extend beyond the state’s borders?
A federal appeals panel in Boston posed this very question...
R.I. public defenders get helping hand, but still understaffed
The workload has gotten easier for the attorneys in the R.I. Office of the Public Defender, but it’s still not case closed when it...
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