Licenses and permits – Stay – Exhaustion requirement – Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly

Licenses and permits – Stay – Exhaustion requirement – Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly

Where the Department of Business Regulation decided to stay the town of Narragansett’s grant of a liquor license to an appellant casino, the appellant’s emergency motion challenging that decision should be denied because the department’s decision is an interlocutory order and the appellant has not shown that an exception applies to the requirement that it exhaust all administrative remedies before pursuing an appeal.