Legal Opinion
Sasso v. State
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided December 6, 1996No. 96-416-AppealPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
This case required us to answer a certified question involving the Providence Place Mall Project (the Project) — a proposed Brobdingnagian parking garage and retail-shopping facility “containing no less than 1,150,000 square feet” to be built in downtown Providence. See P.L.1995, ch. 400 (Enabling Act). Previously, we rejected a constitutional challenge to the Project’s enabling legislation. See Warwick Mall Trust v. State of Rhode Island, 684 A.2d 252 (R.I.1996) (Mall I) (explaining the court’s rationale for its July 19, 1996 order affirming the dismissal of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Lamb v. PerrySupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1967
- Rondoni v. ShermanSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1960
- Warwick Mall Trust v. StateSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1996
- State v. WeinerSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1964
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