State v. Howard

ORDER

This case came before a panel of this court on a petition for certiorari filed by the State of Rhode Island’s Water Resources Board (Board). We issued a writ of certiorari to review a District Court justice’s pretrial order in a pending eviction case which in part directed the Board to proceed with certain repairs to the roof of premises occupied by the respondents, Kenneth and Dorothy Howard (Howards), who were the tenants of the Board. This court issued a stay of that aspect of the District Court’s order, subject to the duty of the Board to make such emergency repairs as it deemed…