28 Prospect Hill St., Inc. v. Gaines

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

We have, at the request of twenty-nine Class B liquor licensees, issued a statutory writ of certiorari pursuant to Rhode Island’s Administrative Procedures Act, G.L. 1956 (1977 Reenactment) § 42-35-16, to re*924view a Superior Court judgment affirming a decision of the State Liquor Control Administrator, 453 A.2d 1104. The administrator in turn has affirmed a November 25, 1981 decision of the city of Newport’s Board of Licenses which would have required all Class B retail liquor establishments, beginning on December 1, 1981, to cease operations on Saturdays, Sundays, and…