All Articles tagged Rhode Island

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  THE “TOUGH LITTLE BUNCH”: THE RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT’S STRONG JUDICIAL INTEGRATION AND COMMITMENT TO JUDICIAL RESTRAINT
  Christina M. Tripoli

  This study discusses the judicial restraint employed by federal and state courts, and that of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, while also analyzing current voting trends and statistics of the...

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2009 EDT
  SYMPOSIUM: STATE HIGH COURT JUDGES ON MAKING THEIR HARDEST DECISIONS
  Maureen McKenna Goldberg

  These symposium remarks tracks some of the difficult decisions of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2009 EDT
  TO HARM, TO VICTIMIZE, AND TO DESTROY: THE UGLY REASON WHY THE CHAMBERS MAJORITY OPINION WAS SO RIGHT
  Matthew J. Skinner

  This comment critically confronts the analysis used in the court’s majority opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.