State v. Eckert

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court denying the plaintiff s motion to adjudge the defendant in contempt for allegedly violating the terms of a preliminary injunction.

This case arises from the morass of transaction surrounding a 10-year leverage funding program used to sell life insurance policies to Rhode Island clients from 1971 through 1975. Several of the corporations involved decided to terminate the program before the end of the 10-year period, and that decision has generated other litigation that has come before this court. State v. Piedmont Funding Corp., 119 R.I.…