Pascale v. Capaldi’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “In our opinion the legislature did not intend that a petition under the uniform declaratory judgments act was to take the place of a taxpayer's suit and, therefore, the Superior Court had no jurisdiction under the act to grant the [taxpayer's] prayers.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bluedog Capital Partners, LLC v. John A. Murphy, in his capacity as Tax Collector for the City of Providence