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  • Scott v. Cyr

    660 A.2d 918 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 19, 1995

    Carla Scott, Tamara Smith and Linda Blish appeal from the entry in the Superior Court (Penobscot County, Browne, A.R.J.) of a judgment as a matter of law for John T. … We declined an invitation to modify that position in Bard v. Bath Iron Works, 590 A.2d 152 (Me.1991). We decline that invitation again. The entry is: Judgment affirmed. All concurring.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Durepos v. Town of Van Buren

    516 A.2d 565 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 24, 1986

    Napolitano v. Ward, 317 F.Supp. 79, 81 (N.D.Ill.1970); see also Safransky v. State Personnel Board, 62 Wis.2d 464, 474 , 215 N.W.2d 379, 384 (1974) (“just cause”). … Hammond v. Temporary Compensation Review Board, 473 A.2d 1267, 1271 (Me.1984).

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Middle Bridge Propr's v. Brooks

    13 Me. 391 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 15, 1836

    Bank of the United States v. Dandridge, 12 Wheat. 64. The duty referred to is one which, from its nature and object, ought by no means to be remitted. … Nichols v. Bertram et al. 3 Pick. 342 , was an action for forcibly passing a turnpike gate, without paying toll.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Bouchard v. City of Auburn

    133 Me. 439 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 29, 1935

    Brown v. Vinalhaven, 65 Me., 402; Woodcock v. Calais, 66 Me., 234; Burrill v. Augusta, 78 Me., 118, 3 A., 177 . … In Keeley v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Morse Bros., Inc. v. Webster

    772 A.2d 842 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 2, 2001

    Pratt v. … See, e.g., State v.

    Abrogated on other grounds by Ralph Nader v. Maine Democratic Party, 2013 Me. LEXIS 51 (2013)Cited 62 timesPublished
  • Leonard v. Boardman

    854 A.2d 869 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 13, 2004

    Young v. Young, 2004 ME 44, ¶ 5 , 845 A.2d 1144, 1145 ; C.E.W. v. D.E.W., 2004 ME 43, ¶¶ 10-11 , 845 A.2d 1146, 1151 ; Stitham v. Henderson, 2001 ME 52, ¶ 17 , 768 A.2d 598, 603 . 5 . … Roussel v. State, 274 A.2d 909, 923 (Me.1971); Merchant v. Bussell, 139 Me. 118, 121 , 27 A.2d 816, 818 (1942).

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Jones v. Light

    86 Me. 437 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 29, 1894

    This doctrine is distinctly laid down by this court in Wyman v. Brown, 50 Maine, 139, 148, where Mr. … Ricker v. Ham, 14 Mass. 137 , 141 ; Hill v. Ahern, 135 Mass. 158 , 159 ; Clapp v. Leatherbee, 18 Pick. 131 , 138 ; Wyman v. Brown, 50 Maine, 139, 148.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • State of Maine v. Bruce Akers

    259 A.3d 127 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Sep 14, 2021

    Id. at 237. [¶41] In Brown v. Illinois, the United States Supreme Court discussed at length the application of the exclusionary rule. 422 U.S. 590 (1975). … All three of the Brown factors support suppression of Akers’s confession, as well as the searches.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Cushing v. Inhabitants of Frankfort

    57 Me. 541 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1869

    Williams v. School District, 21 Pick. 80 . Brown v. Lunt, 37 Maine, 423. Judgment for the Plaintiff. Appleton, C. J.; Cutting, Kent, Barrows, and Daneorth, JJ., concurred.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Bellevue v. Town of Scarborough

    589 A.2d 49 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 11, 1991

    We review the decision of the Board of Appeals directly. Mason v. Crooker-Mulligan, 570 A.2d 1217, 1220 (Me.1990). … That there is evidence in the record that might have led the Board to reach a different conclusion does not permit us to substitute our judgment on the facts for that of the Board of Appeals. Driscoll v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Jacobson v. State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission

    244 A.2d 419 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 18, 1968

    Painter v. … Russell, 48 Cal.2d 189 , 309 P. 2d 10 (1957); Nelson v. State Highway Board, 110 Vt. 44 , 1 A.2d 689, 693 , 118 A. L.R. 915 (1938).

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Gregg v. Bailey

    120 Me. 263 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 5, 1921

    Taylor v. Brown, 88 Maine, 57. … Taylor v. Brown, 88 Maine, 56—(1895). Devise to A. — No words of inheritance. — No express power.— Limitation over held repugnant and void. Bradley v. Warren, 104 Maine, 427—(1908).

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • City of Bangor v. Ridley

    117 Me. 297 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 3, 1918

    This rule needs no citation in this State, but in Goodrich v. … Lesieur v. Rumford, 113 Maine, 317, is a case in which a member of the board of health was employed by the board to attend a case of smallpox.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Caron v. City of Auburn

    567 A.2d 66 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 6, 1989

    . § 2411(3)(F) (1978) and M.R.Civ.P. 80B, challenges the issuance of a variance by the Auburn Zoning Board of Appeals (“ZBA”). … Lane v. Williams, 521 A.2d 706, 708 (Me.1987); Sevigny v. City of Biddeford, 344 A.2d 34, 38 (Me.1975).

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Bates v. Butler

    46 Me. 387 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1859

    Smith v. Kendall, 8 Term R., 123; Rex v. … She is not liable for the amount of the notes, which was for her board. But she would be liable in a suit properly instituted, for the balance, upon the facts agreed in the case. Plaintiff nonsuit.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Tripp v. McCurdy

    121 Me. 194 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 10, 1922

    J., 205; Church v. Gilman, 15 Wend., 656 ; Hatch v. Hatch, 9 Mass., 307 ; Timothy v. Wright, 8 Gray, 522 . … It is equally futile if the delivery to a third party is accompanied by a reservation which retains in the grantor the right to withdraw the deed from the third party, as in Brown v. Brown, 66 Maine, 316.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • In re Estate of Brown

    86 Me. 572 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1894

    Brown, against all of his heirs, asking for construction of certain portions of the will. … Bain v. Lescher, 11 Sim. 397 ; Boulcott v. Boulcott, 2 Drewry, 25. See also Frazier v. Frazier, 2 Leigh, 642 ; Mebane v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Mitton v. Verizon

    38 A.3d 1285 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 22, 2012

    Tracy v. … Farris v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Cameron v. Little

    62 Me. 550 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1873

    Browne on the Statute of Frauds, § 39 ; Taylor’s Landlord and Tenant, § 650 ; Currier v. Barker, 2 Gray, 226 ; Nicholson v. Munigle, 6 Allen, 215 ; Robinson v. Deering, 56 Maine, 357.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Toothaker v. Maine Employment Security Commission

    217 A.2d 203 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 15, 1966

    The contrary view was expressed by three Justices in Lyons v. Appeal Board of Michigan Employ. Sec. Com’n, 363 Mich. 201 , 108 N.W.2d 849 . … Haskett v. Brown, 165 So.2d 25 (La.Ct.App.) The case turned on the creation by the employer of the condition of lack of travel facilities under the circumstances. Such is not the instant case.

    Cited 33 timesPublished

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