Easton's Point Ass'n v. Coastal Resources Management Council

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This case comes before this court pursuant to a petition for writ of certiorari. The collective petitioners, Atlantic East Associates (Atlantic East), Elias Lahoud (La-houd), and Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), seek relief from a Superi- or Court judgment. They maintain that the trial justice exceeded the scope of review for examining an administrative-agency decision. We agree.

Atlantic East is the optionee of a contract with Lahoud. Atlantic East proposed to build a sixty-unit hotel on the land associated with the contract, located on a barrier spit in…