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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Happy New Year! How better to ring in 2015 than talking about an 80B decision the Maine SJC issued on Dec. 31, Beckford v. Town of Clifton? http://www.courts.maine.gov/opinions_orders/supr…
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…