RHODE ISLAND DEPOSITORS CORP. v. BROWN

Nos. 94-648-M.P., 94-668-M.P.

659 A.2d 95 (1995)

In re Advisory Opinion to the Governor (Section 42-116-40 of DEPCO Act). RHODE ISLAND DEPOSITORS ECONOMIC PROTECTION CORPORATION et al. v. Wilhelmina BROWN et al., Ernst & Young et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

May 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Decof, John S. Foley, Howard Klein, Jeffrey Pine, Atty. Gen., Rebecca Tedford Partington, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Elizabeth Murdock Myers, Providence, for plaintiffs.

Peter A. McGinn, Jerome Snider, New York City, Shelia High King, Kirsten Lacovara, George Vetter, John Bomster, John Tarantino, Paul Izzo, Erik Lund, Laurence Field, Boston, MA, Gordon Cleary, Kimberly Simpson, John Bulman, Eva Mancuso, Daniel Kolb, John Matson, William P. Hammer, Jr., J. Andrew Heaton, New York City, Nicholas C. Theodorou, Boston, MA, for defendants.


OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

To His Excellency Lincoln Almond, Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

We have received from Your Excellency a request for our written opinion in accordance with article 10, section 3, of the Rhode Island Constitution on the following three questions:

"1. Whether the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws Section 42-116-40 violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United...

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