May 1, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Onward to the oral argument. The panel members were Judge Ambro (CTA3), Judge Kavanaugh (CTADC) and Judge Gribbon Motz (CTA4), with Patricia Millett the practitioner participant . Millet,...
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April 25, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
As I mentioned in my last posting, Friday I attended a half-day conference on effective appellate advocacy in D.C., with about 100 other appellate types - a mix of agency folks (e.g. a large...
April 17, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
So what's doing in the appellate world? 1. Effective Appellate Advocacy On Friday, I will be toddling off to D.C. to go to what looks like a good half-day conference on Effective Appella...
April 7, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
In honor of Passover, I shall blog on a recent First Circuit decision, Bader v. Wrenn, http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=11-1634P.01A Seth Bader is in jail for l...
April 3, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The First Circuit decided to schedule three arguments in the hottest appeals pending before it on the same day, tomorrow. http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/?content=april4.html Each will be hear...
April 1, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The Maine SJC issued a decision last week relating to the commercial copying of public documents that includes a cornucopia of legal analysis - MacImage of Maine, LLC v. Androscoggin County...
March 22, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
A good friend, Laurie Gibson, just passed away. http://www.sunjournal.com/news/obituaries/2012/03/18/laurie-ann-gibson/1169914#.T2XiSFXimDI.mailto Her service, or more accurately, a celebr...
March 15, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The Maine SJC issued two recent opinions in 80B cases addressing issues of general import, so of course we are going to chat about them here. Town of Minot v. Starbird, 2012 ME 25 [http://w...
March 6, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
In a recent decision, the First Circuit upheld a jury conviction in Maine District Court (Woodcock, J.) for one count of possessing an unregistered shortbarreled shotgun in violation of the...
February 20, 2012 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
As CJ Saufley reported in her state of the judiciary report [?http://www.courts.state.me.us/maine_courts/supreme/speeches/2012_soj.html], in April the Court is going to start streaming argum...
