Here’s a recent First Circuit decision notable for multiple reasons: http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=07-2603.01A First, note the panel. Justice O’Connor is back to r…
The SJC issued a decision recently confirming that anyone doing business with the government had better not hold their breath thinking they can hold the State to its promises: http://www.c…
In my June 27, 2008 posting, I noted my confusion about an 80B decision, Silsby v. Belch, 2008 ME 104: http://www.courts.state.me.us/court_info/opinions/2008%20documents/08me104si.pdf and…
Here’s an interesting tidbit I learned last week. When an ordinary decision comes down from SJC, the clerk contacts the parties so they have notice before the decision appears on the Court’…
In my previous posting, I attached the decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court rejecting a public nuisance claim against lead pigment manufacturers. As I worked on that appeal, certain a…
Here’s the decision that came down today in a case where we represent one of the three defendant-appellant lead pigment manufacturers, held liable at the trial level for abating lead pigment…
Here’s a recent decision about which I would welcome edification: http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attach.php?id=58306&an=1 It rejects a Rule 80B appeal of a minor subdivision approval to…
Peter Culley, Eric Wycoff and I had a good victory in a First Amendment case Friday: http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=07-1695.01A There, the plaintiff was (and is) th…
Last Tuesday, the Court — note that they were sitting as the SJC, not the Law Court — ruled on the Husson College School of Law application: http://www.courts.state.me.us/court_info/opin…
Everyone knows that you get better at something by doing it (there’s a news flash). But just as new lawyers complain that they can’t get practice doing trials because there aren’t any anymo…