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…
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…
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…