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Mansions And Property Rights*

Mansions and Property Rights*

Our Rhode Island Supreme Court recently issued an important decision for property rights, even though property rights were never mentioned in the decision. The Court acted in a dispute between…

Mansions and Property Rights

March 31, 2017 Rhode Island’s Supreme Court recently issued an important decision for property rights, even though property rights were never mentioned in it. The court acted in a dispute…

Mansions and property rights

Rhode Island’s Supreme Court recently issued an important decision for property rights, even though property rights were never mentioned in it. The court acted in a dispute between a Newport…

The Human Cost of Regulatory Gridlock

published in Providence Business News (March 16, 1992) When Dr. Richard Radcliffe and his wife Edith purchased land on the Sakonnet River in Little Compton in the spring of 1975,…

Read the Record on Public Trust

Published in The Providence Journal-Bulletin ( May 1, 1992) The Rhode Island Supreme Court's decision that the State owns certain land in Portsmouth created by placing fill in Mount Hope…

Balancing Land Rights Under Water

Published in The Providence Journal (July 6, 1995) The Rhode Island Supreme Court's recent decision interpreting the public trust doctrine has cleared the ownership status of much of Downtown Providence…

Salvaging the Historic Tax Credit Program

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 Historic Tax Credit Program for all…

Investment Tax Credits and the Courts’ Influence

Providence Business News (February 28- March 6, 2005) Recent news reports suggest Rhode Island may be rethinking its business development incentives spurred in part by a Federal Appeals Court decision…

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