Yesterday the SJC issued a change in Me. R. Civ.P. 1 eliminating the sentence that says the civil rules govern the procedure in the SJC when sitting as the Law Court.   http://www.courts.s…

The SJC has posted the summaries for its upcoming arguments, http://www.courts.state.me.us/maine_courts/supreme/oral_arguments.shtml. If it wasn’t  way up in Bangor, I’d go to the Uliano ar…

So now that the Keebler Elf of the Supreme Court, David Souter, is exiting, and rumor has it that the President will nominate a woman, the timing of the MSBA’s Women’s Law Section Spring Pro…

Yesterday the Supreme Court decided FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., No. 07-582, upholding, 5:4, the FCC’s new rule that unrepeated indecent expletives may be penalized:    http://www….

Thursday I attended the MSBA’s Bench-Bar conference at the Augusta Civic Center (two straight days driving up from Kennebunk and back – good thing I have those Icelandic punk rock cds to kee…

As you know from a previous entry (or if you read Bill Nemitz’s column in the Portland Press Herald today), I testified at the Augusta Civic Center yesterday in favor of LD 1020, the bill to…

Following up on yesterday’s entry, I participated in the U.Maine Law School’s moot court program for the first years last night, as one of a three-judge panel asking questions (the other two…

It’s going to be a busy week extracurricular-wise for me. – Tonight I’m participating in a moot court for the first year students at the University of Maine Law School, as I’ve done for man…

I am back from my Easter vacation (the cherry blossoms were lovely in DC) and catching up. The First Circuit has amended its Local Rule 30 on the  Appendix.http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/ Th…

We all have had our experiences with the First Circuit settlement process (CAMP). My personal favorite story is I had a case dismissed for forum non conveniens at the district court, and th…