Court Opinion

ID: 9879849
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-27 18:45:13.902871+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:02.759835
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Justice Robinson, dissenting. I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion because I believe that the issue before the Court is not ripe due to the fact that an appeal to the Council on Elementary and Secondary Education remains pending; and, if James Viner prevails in that appeal, it would render the instant case entirely moot. Indeed, the majority itsélf concedes that “the school committee’s petition to quash may not have been ripe for review” and that review of such interlocutory rulings of administrative agencies should be “sparingly exercise[d] * * (Internal quotation marks omitted.) It is my definite belief that, in the instant case, this Court should follow “our usual policy of not opining with respect to issues about which we need not opine * * Grady v. Narragansett Electric Co., 962 A.2d 34, 42 n.4 (R.I. 2009).1   . I acknowledge that G.L. 1956 § 42-35-15(a) provides that "[a]ny preliminary, procedural, or intermediate agency act or ruling is immediately reviewable in any case in which review of the final agency order would not provide an adequate remedy.” I am of the opinion that this is simply not such a case.