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June 8, 2006

Update: Carcieri loses latest bid to oust Beacon board members

PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri today suffered another setback in his effort to remove two members of Beacon Mutual Insurance Co.’s board before their terms expire in November.

The state Supreme Court this morning issued an order denying the governor’s request to stay a lower court ruling which prohibits him from removing Beacon board members George Nee and Henry Boeninger.

The Supreme Court also denied the governor’s request to provide a speedy, or "expedited’’ hearing on the governor’s appeal of the Superior Court’s May 23 ruling.

The decision means that Carcieri’s appeal will not get a hearing in the Supreme Court until the justices reconvene in late September. And there is no guarantee that the hearing would be completed before Nee and Boeniger’s terms on the Beacon board are due to expire.

"This simply was a decision by the Supreme Court to not give special treatment to this case,’’ Jeff Neal, the governor’s spokesman, said this afternoon. "They in no way ruled on the merits of our appeal.’’

The governor had not yet had a chance to discuss the ruling with his legal staff, said Neal, to decide what the next step is.

-- Journal staff writer Lynn Arditi

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