Women & Infants Hospital v. City of Providence

OPINION

KELLEHER, Judge.

The facts in this controversy are not in dispute. In 1979 the Providence City Council enacted an antidiscrimination ordinance.1 The council did not seek, nor was it granted, specific authorization for, or ratification of, the enactment of the ordi*652nance from the Rhode Island General Assembly.

Approximately five years after the enactment of the ordinance, in March 1984, Joseph Carnevale (Carnevale) filed a complaint with the defendant, Providence Human Relations Commission (commission), alleging that the plaintiff, Women & Infants Hospital (hospital), failed to hire him…