Champlin's Realty Associates v. Coastal Resources Management Council

Syllabus

The Supreme Court granted two petitions for writ of certiorari filed by the plaintiff, Champlin's Realty Associates (Champlin's), and issued writs to review a Superior Court judgment affirming a decision of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (the CRMC), which denied Champlin's 2003 application to expand its marina on the Great Salt Pond in the Town of New Shoreham. <br> <br>While the case was pending before the Supreme Court, Champlin's and the CRMC entered into mediation and filed a motion seeking to incorporate and merge a Joint Memorandum of Understanding into a consent order of the Supreme Court. The intervenors, the Town of New Shoreham, the Committee for the Great Salt Pond, the Block Island Land Trust, the Block Island Conservancy, and the Conservation Law Foundation, as well as the Rhode Island Attorney General, contested the propriety of the purported settlement and the validity of the Joint Memorandum of Understanding. <br> <br>The Supreme Court affirmed the decision and resulting June 17, 2020 judgment of the Superior Court and denied the request by Champlin's and the CRMC to incorporate and merge the Joint Memorandum of Understanding into a consent order of the Supreme Court.