BROWN v. ELSTON

Nos. 80-589-M.P., 81-177-M.P.

445 A.2d 279 (1982)

Douglas T. BROWN et al. v. Lorraine ELSTON. Douglas T. BROWN et al. v. CONCERNED PARENTS IN the CITY OF WOONSOCKET.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

May 14, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Ackerman, Inc., Woonsocket, for petitioners.

Mortimer C. Newton, Providence, for respondents.


OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

These are petitions for common-law writs of certiorari, whereby the Woonsocket School Committee (the committee) seeks review of two decisions of the Board of Regents (the board) affirming decisions of the Commissioner of Education (the commissioner). In those decisions, the commissioner directed the committee to provide bus transportation to certain students in the Woonsocket public school system. These cases have been...

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