December 10, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
A blog reader (yes, yet another one!) has warmed my heart by asking a Rule 80B/80C question: are the deliberations a part of the administrative record? This question comes up someti...
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December 5, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Multiple readers (wow, I have more than one!) noted that the SJC's unpublished opinions are on a website - Cleaves. http://www.cleaves.org/slip.htm (“Unpublished Memoranda of Decision”)....
December 3, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
I have been musing upon this topic. Here are the pertinent Maine rules: Me. R. App.P. 12 (c) provides: “A memorandum of decision decides a case, but does not establish precedent and wi...
November 27, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
So it's a sunny, crisp Thanksgiving day. What better time to drink some cider, sit by the fire, pet your Newfie and yes, ponder again the niceties of Rule 80B and 80Cs? A while back I ta...
November 17, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
A while back I discussed the Brave New World of cites from the internet - how Bill Gates had created a whole new universe of authorities, and our judicial system is not exception to using th...
November 13, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Today Judge Lipez met with interested lawyers at the Maine State Bar Association's offices in Augusta to talk about what's doing with the First Circuit -- what changes were afoot, what were...
November 10, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The SJC decided a Rule 80C decision, York Hospital v. DHS, 2008 ME 165 (York Hospital II), that has me scratching my head on one particular issue: http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attac...
October 31, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Multiple Pierce Atwood-ites will be arguing appeals in November: On the First Circuit front, Monday, November 3 will see two oral arguments with PA folks: 1. Visible Systems v. Unisys Cor...
October 29, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
No, not that Judge Judy. The Hon. Judith Kaye, Chief Judge in New York. She will be giving the Coffin Lecture on Nov. 6 at USM from 5:50-7:30 pm - to go, call 780-4344. CJ Kaye became an...
October 28, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Following up on my last entry, another presentation at the federal judicial conference was a view from the Magistrate Judges (Judges Kravchuk and Rich), moderated by Pierce Atwood's Jim Erw...
