Buckley v. Affleck

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the Superior Court granting the plaintiffs’ petition for mandamus in which the plaintiffs seek to compel the defendants to pay them a sum of money appropriated by special legislation passed in 1978.

The plaintiffs, Matthew L. Buckley, William Sylvestri, Joseph Pontarelli, and Armand Montanaro, were employees of the Rhode Island Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services from February 15, 1971, through September 9, 1972. The defendants include John J. Affleck, the former director of the Department of…