February 8, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Last week the Maine SJC decided another 80B case, so of course I must blog on the same: Adams v. Town of Brunswick, 2010 ME 7, majority opinion by Justice Mead, Justice Jabar dissenting: h...
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February 4, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Last Monday Bill Kayatta argued an interesting qui tam case in front of the First Circuit, U.S. ex rel. Loughren v. Unum Group. Justice Souter was on the panel. The RSS feed is now on line...
January 29, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Following up on my previous entries, here is the full skinny on the session on appellate practice held a week ago at the winter bar meeting. It was well attended and we had a great set of p...
January 27, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
A full report of the well-attended session on appellate practice at the Maine State Bar Association winter meeting will follow, but first this tidbit of First Circuit news. If you've been l...
January 18, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
On January 14, Chief Judge Lynch (with Judges Stahl and Judge DiClerico, D.Ct. NH, visiting) issued an excellent commerce clause opinion, striking down a Massachusetts law imposing disparate...
January 14, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Here's a short grab bag of recent-looming events etc.: 1. The Supreme Court decided a case in which the Maine Public Utilities Commission was among the respondents- NRG Power Marketing LLC...
January 11, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
In Hostar Marine Transport Systems, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Internal Revenue Service, No. 08-2535 (Jan. 7, 2010), http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/, the First Circuit held that the IRS's duty...
January 6, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The event to celebrate Judge Coffin's life has now been re-scheduled to May 8, same place (Abromson center). May 8, as History aficionados may know, is V-E day, the day WWII ended in Europe...
January 5, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
A paragraph in a recent SJC decision (Mulready v. Maine Board of Real Estate Appraisers, 2009 ME 135 (12/29/09)) got me pondering. It is an 80C decision, naturally to whetting my insatiable...
January 1, 2010 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
So Christmas break is over, I managed to fly down to DC and back without anyone exploding anything in their underpants (yay), and we begin the new year by looking at two recent SJC decisions...
