The Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has statutory authority to review the decisions of DEM Administrative Adjudication hearing officers pertaining to violations or licenses. (See R.I.Gen. Laws…
Whether or not one agrees with Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision this week to remove the last federal regulatory barrier to the permitting of the Cape Wind Project, there should be…
Given that Rhode Island is the Ocean State, and recreational fishing is extremely popular, I have been following the concern of recreational anglers that a Presidential Task Force may…
Prospective purchasers and owners of investment rental property, including condominium developers renting units they can’t sell, may not often think of minimum housing standards, but perhaps they should. Rhode…
If you think owning or buying a gasoline service station is easy, think again. Consider this conundrum. You are projecting capital expenses and you know that your single-walled tanks must…
This is the last in a four-part series on the Rhode Island Supreme Court’s decision in the Champlin’s Marina decision, where the court affirmed in part and reversed in part…
In a recent talk to a regional conference of planners held in Connecticut, that is how I described a trial court’s findings that a coastal permitting agency failed to…
That in effect was one of the questions facing the Rhode Island Supreme Court in its recent Champlin’s Marina decision. Does a quasi-judicial hearing officer receive only a limited scope of…
If there is a weakness in the Supreme Court’s thoughtful decision in the Champlin’s Marina case, in my judgment it is in the remedy imposed by a divided Court. See…
as published in the Rhode Island Bar Journal, November/December 2008 Bowing to budgetary constraints, the 2008 session of the Rhode Island General Assembly effectively terminated the Rhode Island…