No details of the commission’s conversation on the three federal lawsuits filed by out-of-state entrepreneurs, along with the commission’s next steps, were disclosed upon their return to open session.
The only action taken during the special meeting was to seal the minutes of the executive session and adjourn at around 12:30 p.m. The state’s appeal was filed at 4:04 p.m.
A public update will come Friday during the panel’s monthly open session at the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) offices in Warwick, chief legal counsel Mariana Ormonde told Rhode Island Current after the meeting.
“I know for a lot of people this looks like it came out of left field,” she said. “But we’ve been litigating these cases for years, and we actually got the cases dismissed at one point—now they’re back.”
Commissioner Robert Jacquard issued a similar statement at the beginning of the meeting before making the motion to enter executive session.
“We talk about litigation cases in every executive session of our regular monthly meeting,” he said. “This is not as if we have not talked about them in the last week. Due to the opinion that came out last week, we thought it was prudent that we meet
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