Olamuyiwa v. Zebra Atlantek, Inc.

OPINION

Justice ROBINSON,

for the Court.

The plaintiff, Tijani A. Olamuyiwa, appeals from a Superior Court grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants — viz., Zebra Atlantek, Inc. (Zebra Atlantek), John Conway, Francis Delillo, Karen Vaillancourt, Roger Sevigny, and Paul Follett.1 On appeal, the plaintiff con*529tends that certain provisions of the Rhode Island Fair Employment Practices Act (FEPA)2 render the release document which the plaintiff executed as part of his severance package void as it applied to his pending FEPA claims.

This case came before the Supreme Court for oral argument…