5+ hour, 12+ min ago   (300+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 25, 2026// Where (1) a plaintiff brought suit alleging that the defendants misclassified her as an independent contractor and (2) the defendants have filed an indemnity counterclaim for the costs arising from the litigation, the plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago   (197+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 25, 2026// Where the University of Rhode Island has moved to dismiss a complaint filed by a former professor, the motion should be allowed because (1) the professor’s claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII and the…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago   (305+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 25, 2026// Where a correctional officer’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits was denied, that decision should be affirmed because legally competent and substantial evidence in the record supports the retirement board’s findings that the applicant did not…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago   (327+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 25, 2026// Where the Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed an immigration judge’s removal order, that order should be vacated because the judge’s failure to address the petitioner’s competency despite the presence of relevant indicia for doing so undermines…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (530+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 24, 2026// A Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of Glocester landowners in a tax dispute, finding that the town’s tax assessor was “outside the ambit of state law” when she assessed and sent additional tax bills…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (405+ words) USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect//July 24, 2026// The Rhode Island anesthesiologist captured on a boat recently after more than 20 years on the run is expected to be returned to the Ocean State by deputy sheriffs on July 24. Ronald Fischer, 70, formerly…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (136+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 23, 2026// Evidence found when police officers entered a third-floor apartment without a warrant should have been suppressed because the officers had no constitutionally permissible reason to enter the premises after finding an unresponsive person on the second…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (37+ words) Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly State to pay legal fees after closing State House rotunda to protesters USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect//July 23, 2026//...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (181+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 22, 2026// Where defendants have moved to compel arbitration pursuant to an alternative dispute resolution provision contained within a nursing home’s “admission agreement,” the motion should be denied without prejudice because an issue of material fact exists regarding…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (227+ words) R.I. Lawyers Weekly Staff//July 22, 2026// “‘An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws’ (‘the Act’) was signed into law on July 25, 2024. … “In Capen, we affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to prevent Massachusetts from enforcing a statutory predecessor of…...