Legal Opinion
Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District v. Pontarelli
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 2, 1983No. 82-363-AppealPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
This advisory opinion to the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island had its genesis in the June 29, 1981 rejection by the Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District committee of a request by one Thomas L. Ross that the committee pay his son’s $925 tuition at St. Raphael Academy, a religiously affiliated school situated in Pawtucket. Mr. Ross appealed the rejection to the State Commissioner of Education. A hearing was held before the associate commissioner of education, who vacated the rejection in a decision that ordered the committee to pay…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Citizens for Preservation of Waterman Lake v. DavisSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1980
- Jacob v. BurkeSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1972
3Cited by14 opinions
- In Re DenisewichSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1994
- Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District v. Arthur R. Pontarelli, Commissioner of Education for Rhode IslandCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1986
- In Re Advisory Opinion to the GovernorSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1986
- Castelli v. CarcieriSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2008
- Pawtucket School Committee v. Board of Regents for Elementary & Secondary EducationSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1986
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