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CLIFFORD RIDLON,
Plaintiff
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TOWN OF WINDHAM,
Defendant
In response to the court's order of February 6, 2007, plaintiff Clifford Ridlon has
submitted two handwritten documents. These documents contain references to a prior
bankruptcy proceeding, to prior civil or criminal proceedings, to past assistance he may
have provided to law enforcement officials, and to past events which resulted, he
asserts, in his having lost 10 years of h s life and having been railroaded for some years
into the former Augusta Mental Health Institute. The court sees no indication that
copies of these documents were served, as required, upon the attorney for the Town.
Very little of plaintiff's submissions relates to the dispute at hand. With respect
to the pending appeal, it is difficult to understand plaintiff's contentions, but he appears
to allege that he was given assurances by the town that he would be entitled to 50
parlung spaces and that he has since been treated unfairly in numerous respects.
Despite the court's order and the requirements of Rule 80B(e), plaintiff has not
submitted any administrative record and the court is at a loss to determine how it can
possibly undertake any judicial review of the Town's action on plaintiff's license
application without an administrative record.
Plaintiff' attorney filed a motion to withdraw in mid October and by order filed
November 17, 2006, the court gave plaintiff 20 days to obtain a new attorney or the
court would assume he was representing himself. No new attorney has since appeared
for plaintiff.
The November 17 order put plaintiff on notice that if new counsel did not
appear, plaintiff would be required to follow all of the applicable rules in the Maine
Rules of Civil Procedure. At this point the court can only conclude that the plaintiff has
not complied with those rules or with the court's February 6 order. Moreover, the Law
Court has consistently made clear that pro se litigants are not excused from the
procedural and other rules applicable to represented litigants. E.n, Dumont v. Fleet
Bank, 2000 ME 197, ¶ 13,760 A.2d 1049,1054.
The entry shall be:
Plaintiff's appeal is dismissed for failure to file the administrative record. The
clerk is directed to incorporate this order in the docket by reference pursuant to Rule
79(a).
Dated: March G ,2007 0
Thomas D. Warren
Justice, Superior Court
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CUMBERLAND Docket No.- AP-06-37
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C L I F F O R D A. RIDLON TOWN O F WINDHAM
ZONING BOARD O F A P P E A L S , WINDHAM, ME
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C L I F F O R D RIDLON-PRO S E Defendant's Attorney
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