News & Commentary

Today’s decision from the Rhode Island Supreme Court upholding the General Assembly’s authority to enact the Reproductive Privacy Act could not be more timely.

A seven-year legal battle over privacy rights in the home, fought by ACLU of Rhode Island cooperating attorneys in a case that went all to the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, ended today with the filing of a settlement in the case of Cranston resident Edward Caniglia.

R.I. Superior Court Judge Stephen Nugent today ordered the release on parole of three individuals who were convicted of crimes committed when they were teenagers and who were recently granted parole, but who nonetheless continued to be held at the ACI.

There is significant public interest in the requested records. The City’s decision to prevent 22Gz from performing at Lit Lounge constitutes a prior restraint on speech, which may have been unconstitutional.

The State’s argument, taken to its logical conclusion, would be that the Youthful Offender Act is not applicable—at all—to any person sentenced on multiple offenses, even those running concurrently, since that person has not been convicted of “an” offense.

The Providence Police Department is actively pursuing the installation of ALPR camera systems throughout the city.

Today’s decision from the Court affirms the basic principle of our judicial system that the doors to justice shall remain open to all.

Interceding in a case raising significant issues involving government transparency in environmental disputes, several organizations filed a “friend of the court” brief in the RI Supreme Court in a long-standing controversy involving the proposed expansion of Champlin’s Marina on Block Island.

In a victory for voting rights R.I. Superior Court Judge Sarah Taft-Carter today ruled unconstitutional a policy of the Bonnet Shores Fire District (BSFD) in Narragansett that bars residents from voting if they own less than $400 of property in the district.