Now that everyone from law enforcement to civilians with cell phones can take video, so we are all on camera all the time (an average Londoner is seen 300 times a day), a hot topic in appell…

Chuck Harvey’s funeral was last Friday, and deservely the turnout was a who’s who of the Maine legal and politica community.   Chuck was a very good all around litigator (and mediator), an…

Senator Bunning is feeling some heat now for having said that Justice Ginsburg has “bad cancer.  The kind that you don’t get better from,” and that “usually, nine months is the longest that…

Two recent events have caused me to ponder the issue of judicial elections. First, Chief Justice Saufley justifiably sailed through her legislative review for re-upping for another seven ye…

In my last entry I discussed two recent FIrst Circuit decisions, including one involving Staples, Inc.  Another decision involving that company came down last Friday (plug in the same addres…

The First Circuit issued two interesting and well written opinions recently, one from Judge Boudin (King v. Rivas) and one from Chief Judge Lynch (Day v. Staples, Inc.) http://www.ca1.uscour…

The SJC issued a decision yesterday which rules on two interesting points, one relating to venue and the other what efforts need to be made to effect service to meet due process requirements…

The January 29 edition of the Maine Lawyers Review includes its tabulation of number of SJC decisions, concurrences, dissents, etc. for 2008.  Nothing wildly extraordinary emerges. The SJC…

I’ve perused the SJC’s schedule for oral arguments in February – http://www.courts.state.me.us/maine_courts/supreme/oral_arguments.shtml –  and the one I think is most interesting and I mi…

On the same day the SJC issued the Bickart decision discussed in my last posting, the SJC issued a very thoughtful and comprehensive opinion that sets forth a nice blueprint of how to go abo…