So last week I lost an appeal.  I’m not going to blog on that case because there is nothing one can say in this situation that puts one in a positive light.  It’s over, the ice cream cone is…

Last week the Maine SJC decided another 80B case, so of course I must blog on the same:  Adams v. Town of Brunswick, 2010 ME 7, majority opinion by Justice Mead, Justice Jabar dissenting: h…

Last Monday Bill Kayatta argued an interesting qui tam case in front of the First Circuit, U.S. ex rel. Loughren v. Unum Group.  Justice Souter was on the panel.  The RSS feed is now on line…

Following up on my previous entries, here is the full skinny on the session on appellate practice held a week ago at the winter bar meeting.  It was well attended and we had a great set of p…

A full report of the well-attended session on appellate practice at the Maine State Bar Association winter meeting will follow, but first this tidbit of First Circuit news. If you’ve been l…

On January 14, Chief Judge Lynch (with Judges Stahl and Judge DiClerico, D.Ct. NH, visiting) issued an excellent commerce clause opinion, striking down a Massachusetts law imposing disparate…

Here’s a short grab bag of recent-looming events etc.: 1.  The Supreme Court decided a case in which the Maine Public Utilities Commission was among the respondents- NRG Power Marketing LLC…

In Hostar Marine Transport Systems, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Internal Revenue Service, No. 08-2535 (Jan. 7, 2010), http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/, the First Circuit held that the IRS’s duty…

The event to celebrate Judge Coffin’s life has now been re-scheduled to May 8, same place (Abromson center). May 8, as History aficionados may know, is V-E day, the day WWII ended in Europe…

A paragraph in a recent SJC decision (Mulready v. Maine Board of Real Estate Appraisers, 2009 ME 135 (12/29/09)) got me pondering.  It is an 80C decision, naturally to whetting my insatiable…