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.
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…
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…
Joshua D. Dunlap
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