Uncategorized
December 20, 2017 by Heather Stevens
We are off for the holidays, and so end the year with a quick review of recent decisions from the Law Court and First Circuit. Thanks to all for reading and for the feedback received in 2017. A surprising number of folks seem interested in reading about Maine law – we had 400 readers on […]
Read more »
December 15, 2017 by Heather Stevens
Looking at the summaries of oral arguments heard last week, one struck my eye, so I listened in. The merits of the dispute go to the legality of the Maine PUC’s net metering rule, an issue we won’t discuss. It’s a jurisdictional issue the Commission raised, with impact beyond this particular case, which I’d like […]
December 13, 2017 / December 13, 2017 by Heather Stevens
There were a slew of decisions issued by the Law Court last Thursday. Let’s take a peek and discuss a few. A smelly oops State of Maine v. Dubois Livestock, Inc., 2017 ME 223. The holding is that when someone has a license issued by the DEP permit, at least under 38 M.R.S. s. 347-C […]
December 8, 2017 by Heather Stevens
Spanked You can’t be compelled to arbitrate a claim if you never signed an agreement to arbitrate, or even knew it existed. That’s the bottom line of a November 21 decision, Ouadani v. TF Final Mile LLC, No. 17-1583. Seem fairly logical to you? Me too. And to the Court (Judges Lynch and Selya, with our […]
December 4, 2017 by Heather Stevens
This quarter’s Maine Bar Journal has an article by an attorney, Jeff Goldman, of counsel at Morgan, Lewis in Boston. It’s called The Law Court’s Troubling Opinion of the Justices, and criticizes the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s unanimous advisory opinion on the Ranked Choice Voting (“RCV”) statute. Contrary to the title and vocabulary of the […]
