Palmer v. A.H. Robins Co.

Palmer v. A.H. Robins Co.

Facts

The Rhode Island UPL Committee disputed the constitutionality of a piece of two statutes supplying that worker aides inside the State Department of Workers' Compensation could supply recommendations and aid to workers under the workers' reimbursement proceed, thereby violating the court's exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the perform of law. The Superior Court held that the obligations of the worker aides constituted the practice of law under delineations established by the court and, thus, those portions of the statutes permitting those obligations were unconstitutional.

Issue

Did the smaller court err in retaining that the obligations of ...