DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION OF STATE OF RI v. Tucker

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice.

This case comes before us on a petition for certiorari filed by the Department of Corrections of the State of Rhode Island (department) seeking review of a judgment of the Superior Court affirming a decision and order of the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights. We grant the petition and quash the decision of the Superior Court. The facts insofar as pertinent to this petition for certiorari and as found to be essentially undisputed by the justice of the Superior Court are as follows.

The respondent, Joe Louis Tucker, Jr. (Tucker), a man of African-American…