Legal Opinion
Watson v. Fox
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided May 22, 2012No. 2009-215-AppealPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice FLAHERTY, for the Court.
The plaintiff, Robert Watson, together with nine Republican colleagues from the Rhode Island House of Representatives, filed a complaint for declaratory relief in which they sought a ruling that the process the General Assembly used to allocate $2.3 million in state money for legislative grants to local and private organizations in the FY2008 2 budget act violated articles 5, 6, and 9 of the Rhode Island Constitution. 3 The plaintiffs brought this action in their individual capacities as Rhode Island taxpayers, and not in their capacities as elected…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Flast v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Sierra Club v. MortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. CampSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Massachusetts v. MellonSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Bill Duncan & a. v. State of New Hampshire & a.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 2014
- Narragansett Indian Tribe v. State of Rhode Island and UTGR, Inc. d/b/a Twin River and Newport Grand, LLC,IntervenorSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2014
- Stephen L. Key v. Brown UniversitySupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2017
- Christopher Warfel v. Town of New ShorehamSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2018
- Apex Oil Company, Inc., individually and as Assignee of Glencore, Ltd. v. State of Rhode Island, acting by and through Division of TaxationSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2023
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