Yes, there is more to say about independent claims!
We (hey, if The New Yorker can use the royal we, why can’t I) have been very busy and neglectful of the blog, but now that the holidays are upon us and things are slowing down, hopefully we…
In this blog, we seek to discuss issues relating to appeals and appellate law in Maine, including the activities and decisions of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and First Circuit Court of Appeals relevant to Maine, and other participants in the Maine appellate community.
We (hey, if The New Yorker can use the royal we, why can’t I) have been very busy and neglectful of the blog, but now that the holidays are upon us and things are slowing down, hopefully we…
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…
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 noted that the SJC’s unpublished opinions are on a website – Cleaves. http://www.cleaves.org/slip.htm (“Unpublished Memoranda of Decision”)….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Joshua D. Dunlap
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