Here’s an interesting tidbit I learned last week.  When an ordinary decision comes down from SJC, the clerk contacts the parties so they have notice before the decision appears on the Court’…

In my previous posting, I attached the decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court rejecting a public nuisance claim against lead pigment manufacturers.  As I worked on that appeal, certain a…

Here’s the decision that came down today in a case where we represent one of the three defendant-appellant lead pigment manufacturers, held liable at the trial level for abating lead pigment…

Here’s a recent decision about which I would welcome edification: http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attach.php?id=58306&an=1 It rejects a Rule 80B appeal of a minor subdivision approval to…

Peter Culley, Eric Wycoff and I had a good victory in a First Amendment case Friday: http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=07-1695.01A There, the plaintiff was (and is) th…

Last Tuesday, the Court — note that they were sitting as the SJC, not the Law Court — ruled on the Husson College School of Law application: http://www.courts.state.me.us/court_info/opin…

Everyone knows that you get better at something by doing it (there’s a news flash).  But just as new lawyers complain that they can’t get practice doing trials because there aren’t any anymo…

The SJC decided an administrative appeal on Thursday that has multiple points of interest. Nelson v. Bayroot: http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attach.php?id=56491&an=1 The most obvious…

So I was roaming through the wedding notices in the Style section of the Sunday New York Times last week, when who should I see getting married but Justice Silver’s son.  Congratulations!  T…

On Tuesday, the First Circuit issued U.S. v. Ortiz-Graulau, 06-1768:  http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=06-1768.01A There, the Court affirms a conviction for exploitin…