January 30, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The January 29 edition of the Maine Lawyers Review includes its tabulation of number of SJC decisions, concurrences, dissents, etc. for 2008. Nothing wildly extraordinary emerges. The SJC...
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January 27, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
I've perused the SJC's schedule for oral arguments in February - http://www.courts.state.me.us/maine_courts/supreme/oral_arguments.shtml - and the one I think is most interesting and I mi...
January 23, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
On the same day the SJC issued the Bickart decision discussed in my last posting, the SJC issued a very thoughtful and comprehensive opinion that sets forth a nice blueprint of how to go abo...
January 22, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
In State v. Bickart, the SJC rejected Daubert as a standard, allowing in expert testimony about a palm print: http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attach.php?id=66964&an=1 Incidentally, if,...
January 20, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The SJC decided an interesting jurisdictional case last week, Hill v. Kwan, 2009 ME 4: http://www.courts.state.me.us/court_info/opinions/2009%20documents/09me4hi.pdf The plaintiff filed a...
January 16, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Pierce Atwood's Bill Kayatta and Cliff Ruprecht won a hard-fought victory in the Sixth Circuit January 12, reversing the trial court's grant of class certification. The decision is unpublis...
January 15, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Ex-clerk of the courts Jim Chute has reconfigured his web site. Check it out – www.jameschute.com.
January 13, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
So in my oral argument today, Justice Alexander made it clear that he was very unhappy with people who do not file appendices with the mandatory documents in the order listed in M.R.App.P. 8...
Here's a nice article about the hardest working (and one of the smartest) judges in the business, Chief Judge of the First Circuit, from BU magazine, her law school alma mater: htt...
January 10, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Congratulations to my old Board of Bar Examiner colleague Barbara Goodwin on getting a summary judgment vacated and a remand in a 1983 case, Morrelli v. Webster. http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov...
