LEGAL DOCUMENT

Case: Aram K. BERBERIAN v. DISCIPLINARY BOARD OF RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT
Citation: 427 A.2d 1332
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1981-03-13
Docket Number: No. 79-305-Appeal
Pages: 1332–1332
Volume: 427
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series

Parties: Aram K. BERBERIAN v. DISCIPLINARY BOARD OF RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT.

Aram K. BERBERIAN v. DISCIPLINARY BOARD OF RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT.
No. 79-305-Appeal.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
March 13, 1981.
Aram K. Berberian, pro se.
Dennis J. Roberts II, Atty. Gen., Harold E. Krause, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

ORDER
On March 5, 1981, the plaintiff appeared before us in an effort to show cause why his appeal from the denial by a Superior Court justice of his complaint seeking a mandatory injunction directed against this court’s Disciplinary Board should not be dismissed. The complaint asks that the Disciplinary Board be required to give a declaratory ruling pursuant to G.L.1956 (1977 Reenactment) § 42-35-8 of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). The show-cause order was based upon our ruling in Petition of Rhode Island Bar Association, 118 R.I. 489, 374 A.2d 802 (1977), where we ruled that the judicial branch of government is not subject to the provisions of the APA. In like manner, the Disciplinary Board is an agency of this court, and it too is not within the reach of the APA. Consequently, no cause having been shown, the plaintiff’s appeal is denied and dismissed.
SHEA, J., did not participate.