Sullivan v. Chafee

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

We speak here of judicial power and justi-ciability, of indispensable parties and mootness, and of city council budget votes and mayoral vetoes.

The plaintiffs, four current members and one former member of the nine-person Warwick City Council (the council), 1 appeal from a Superior Court declaratory judgment concerning a dispute involving the city’s municipal budget for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 1997 (FY 1997). The Superior Court’s judgment rejected the plaintiffs’ proposed interpretation of various budgetary provisions contained in the Warwick City…