April 29, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
At long last, briefs need no longer be filed in wordperfect: Download 1st_circuit_w1038072.PDF While the rule is ambiguous, my understanding is that it does not apply to the appendix -...
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April 28, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
I lunched today with Professor Wanderer of the University of Maine School of Law, who informed me, among other things, that she will be spending the summer revising the Uniform Maine Citatio...
April 25, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
On Thursday I attended, along with about 90 other lawyers, the MSBA appellate seminar. Each Justice except Justice Mead (off in Abu Dabi) presented, along with two of the law clerks. It wa...
April 22, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Here's some succinct appellate standard of review language from a recent First Circuit decision (Moulton v. Shell Oil Products LLC, Docket No. 05-2771 (April 18, 2008)): We review the deni...
April 21, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
David Lourie responds to the April 17, 2008 Toomey post as follows: Your ruminations over the procedural due process argument may be overblown. I think that the Law Court relegated the iss...
April 18, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Before discussing the Camp decision, here's a general Rule 80B factoid. Matt Pollack, the new, very friendly and helpful clerk at the SJC, showed me a few statistics as a sneak preview to th...
April 17, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Two recent decisions from the Law Court are of interest, going to the interface between an administrative appeal of a town body's adjudicatory decision under Rule 80B and other independent c...
April 15, 2008 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
What an auspicious day to launch an appellate blog - tax day! As a former resident of Chicago, I vividly recollect our Mayor and fellow Northwestern alum, Harold Washington, getting into a...
January 1, 1900 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
We blogged on the appeal about the use and ownership of Goose Rocks beach on December 2, after oral argument in the Law Court. [Goose Rocks, muskets and takings law] The Court issued its...
The Supreme Court issued a new decision in the takings area, and, consistent with this general line of jurisprudence it is, in a world, confused. Stop the Beach Renourishment Inc. v Florida...
