May 10, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
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May 1, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
April 29, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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....
April 25, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
April 23, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
April 21, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
April 20, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
April 15, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
April 8, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
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...
April 2, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Everyone knows that there are simple tests to take to discern traits. For example, a simple test to find out if people are male or female is to put them in a room where a Three Stooges movi...
