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...
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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...
January 6, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Oh how the latest kerfluffle with Gov. Blagojevich make me nostalgic for my days in Chicago. Illinois politicians are a colorful bunch and governors have had a tendency to get into trouble...
January 2, 2009 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
This is an interesting arbitration appeal and victory for our Gavin McCarthy. The issue goes to what an arbitrator can do to clarify his or her decision after it is issued: http://www.ca1....
December 29, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
So the SJC issued another 80C decision, and obviously I must discuss it (it's like an addiction). In Tomer v. MHRC, the Court held that a Maine Rights Commission decision in which the Commi...
December 22, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
We (hey, if The New Yorker can use the royal we, why can't I) have been very busy and neglectful of the blog, but now that the holidays are upon us and things are slowing down, hopefully we...
