Rhode Island Depositors Economic Protection Corp. v. Brown

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• analyzing state and federal due process challenges under United States Constitution only
• applying three-prong test to determine whether enactment impaired obligation of contract
• purely economic legislation, not involving a suspect class or fundamental right, passes constitutional muster if a rational basis exists
• \The Rhode Island General Assembly has no formal record of legislative history accompanying this or any other act it has ever passed.\
• party challenging the constitutionality of an act carries the burden of persuading the court that the act violates an identifiable aspect of the Rhode Island or United States Constitution
• Equal protection standards of Rhode Island Constitution coterminous with federal counterpart

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).