Rule v. R. I. Department of Transportation

OPINION

BEYILACQUA, Chief Justice.

These two cases are petitions for writs of certiorari filed under the provisions of G.L. 1956 (1977 Reenactment) § 42-35-16, which petitions have been consolidated for argument because they present a cognate issue concerning the security and suspension requirements of the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act. 1 We shall refer to the plaintiffs, Paul Rule and Rose Sirenski, as “Rule” and “Sirenski” individually and as “plaintiffs” collectively. We shall refer to the defendants Registrar of Motor Vehicles and Department of Transportation as “the registrar.”

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