Mongony v. Bevilacqua

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs brought this action for declaratory and injunctive relief in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, alleging that their constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments would be violated by the proposed establishment by the defendants of a community residence for retarded persons in their neighborhood. Before reaching the federal constitutional issues raised by the plaintiffs, the District Court judge pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 6 certified to this court a series of questions, together with a…