Have docket, will travel: RI Supreme Court hears oral arguments at North Smithfield High School

By: Ethan Shorey

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: April 2, 2026

Words: 1,060

Last Updated: 3 months, 4 weeks ago

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More than a hundred North Smithfield High School students watched attorneys present oral arguments before the state’s highest court Thursday morning.

But they did not see five Rhode Island Supreme Court justices and the half-dozen or so attorneys appearing before them in the Licht Judicial Complex in downtown Providence. Instead, they watched them at work in the school’s auditorium hearing and presenting arguments on cases as diverse as excessive noise in Warwick and a Providence …

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