Mark v. Congregation Mishkon Tefiloh

OPINION

GOLDBERG, Justice.

This case is before us on the defendant Congregation Mishkon Tefiloh’s petition for writ of certiorari, seeking review of a Superior Court order that denied the defendant’s motion to strike plaintiffs’ claims for punitive damages. The motion to strike was purportedly made pursuant to this Court’s holding in Palmisano v. Toth, 624 A.2d 314 (R.I.1993).

This case arises from an alleged contract formed in 1967 between the late Haskel Mark (Haskel) and the defendant Congregation Mishkon Tefiloh (Congregation) concerning the purchase of two cemetery plots in Lincoln Cemetery…