DURFEE v. OCEAN STATE STEEL, INC.

No. 93-507-Appeal.

636 A.2d 698 (1994)

Louise DURFEE, in her capacity as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, v. OCEAN STATE STEEL, INC.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

January 26, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude Cote, Dept. of Environmental Management, Mark Wallace Siegars, Dept. of Environmental Management, for plaintiff.

Dennis Esposito, W. James McKay, David Wollin, Ocean State Steel, Thomas V. Moses, RI Dept. of Economic Development, Providence, for defendant.

Deming E. Sherman, Blackstone Park Improvement Ass'n., Ralph J. Perrotta, East Providence Coalition/C Care of RI, Providence, William C. Maaia, East Providence School Committee, East Providence, amicus curiae.


OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This case comes before us on the appeal of the defendant, Ocean State Steel, Inc. (Ocean State), an East Providence-based steel-manufacturing plant, from a Superior Court order finding it in contempt of a prior court order entered into by consent of both Ocean State and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM).

The facts that give rise to this dispute involve a consent agreement signed by the parties...

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