There are two distinct procedural mechanisms for obtaining review by the Rhode Island Supreme Court.\u00a0 The most common is the appeal, which may be taken as of right in circumstances prescribed by law.\u00a0 See New Harbor Village, LLC v. Town of New Shoreham Zoning Bd<\/i>., 894 A.2d 901, 907 (R.I. 2006).\u00a0 The second is the petition for an extraordinary writ, which is discretionary and granted at the discretion of the Court.\u00a0 Id<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The most common of the extraordinary writs is the common law petition for writ of certiorari.\u00a0 As their name suggests, writs of certiorari are indeed extraordinary.\u00a0 Last year, 62 petitions were filed with the Rhode Island Supreme Court seeking issuance of a writ of certiorari.\u00a0 See<\/i> Rhode Island Judiciary 2012 Annual Report, available at <\/i>http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/PublicResources\/annualreports\/PDF\/2012.pdf<\/a>.\u00a0 Of those, very few will be granted.\u00a0 While the Court has unbridled discretion to issue the writ, it rarely exercises that discretion.\u00a0 See New Harbor Village, LLC<\/i>, 894 A.2d at 907.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two distinct procedural mechanisms for obtaining review by the Rhode Island Supreme Court.\u00a0 The most common is the appeal, which may be taken as of right in circumstances prescribed by law.\u00a0 See New Harbor Village, LLC v. Town of New…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[18,22,14],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certiorari","tag-appellate-practice","tag-certiorari","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}