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  • Appletree Cottage, LLC v. Town of Cape Elizabeth

    169 A.3d 396 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 8, 2017

    Assocs. v. Town of Wells, 2001 ME 178, ¶ 13 , 787 A.2d 137 (quotation marks omitted). *399 [¶ 10] Here, in granting Bond’s application for a building permit, the CEO made no factual findings. … Similar to the circumstances before us in Mills v.

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  • Piper v. Moulton

    72 Me. 155 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 10, 1881

    I think I am bound by the cases Chapman v. Brown, 6 Ves. 404, and the Attorney General v. Hinxman, 2 J. … The decision, Fowler v. Fowler, relied upon by the counsel for the complainants, is made by Romilly, V. C. id rest upon the cases of Chapman v. Brown, and the Attorney General v.

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  • Vigue v. Chapman

    138 Me. 206 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 22, 1941

    Porter v. Whitney, 1 Me., 306; Brown v. Veazie, 25 Me., 359; Hobbs v. Clements, 32 Me., 67; Bowler v. Brown, 84 Me., 376, 24 A., 870 ; Baker v. … Mussey v. White, et al., 3 Me., 290; Blanchard v. Dow, 32 Me., 557; Hathaway v. Inhabitants of Addison, 48 Me., 440; Gerry v. Herrick, 87 Me., 219, 32 A., 882 ; Inhabitants of Wellington v.

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  • Philric Associates v. City of South Portland

    595 A.2d 1061 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 16, 1991

    Philric contends that the City’s treatment of its subdivision application presents concerns similar to those that we addressed in Mutton Hill Estates, Inc. v. Town of Oakland, 468 A.2d 989 (Me.1983). We disagree. … Philric has not established that any harm will result from allowing the board to complete its review in due course. State v. Maine State Employees Ass’n, 482 A.2d 461, 464 (Me.1984). The entry is: Judgment affirmed.

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  • Little v. Thurston

    58 Me. 86 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1870

    Brown, 10 Maine, 49, the defendant relied on the case of Winter v. … In Chandler v. Marsh, 4 Vermont, 161, Hutchinson, C.

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  • In re Jonas

    202 A.3d 1187 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 14, 2019

    See Mathews v. Eldridge , 424 U.S. 319 , 335, 96 S.Ct. 893 , 47 L.Ed.2d 18 (1976) ; see also Fichter v. … The evidence, including the evidence introduced by the Board of events since the closing of evidence in the original trial, demonstrates a continuing practice of frivolous and vexatious actions and use of court pleadings

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  • Lovell v. One Bancorp

    614 A.2d 56 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 20, 1992

    York v. … In Jameson v.

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  • Rea v. Dorrance

    18 Me. 137 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 15, 1841

    Secondly, the case of De Bert v. Atkinson would not be held to be law at the present day. … Bayley on Bills, 5 Ed. 307, note 160; Smith v. Becket, 13 East, 187; Brown v. Maffey, 15 East, 216; Leach v. Hewitt, 4 Taunton, 731; Groton v. Dallheim, before cited; Holland v. Turner, 10 Conn. R. 308.

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  • Barker v. Hesseltine

    27 Me. 354 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 15, 1847

    The case of Brown v. Veazie, 25 Maine R. 359, may be referred to as containing much of the reasoning, and some of the principles upon which the case before us must be decided.

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  • Pullen v. Glidden

    68 Me. 559 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 20, 1878

    The remark is quoted approvingly by our own court in Fitzgibbon v. Brown, 43 Maine, 169, 175. The same doctrine seems to have been held in Israel v. Brooks, 23 Ill. 575 , and Miller v. Brown, 2 Mo. 127 . … In Taylor v.

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  • Cumberland & Oxford Canal Corp. v. Hitchings

    65 Me. 140 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 5, 1876

    And in Russell v. … The same limitation upon the measure of damages is sustained in Duncan v. Markley, 1 Harper, 276 ; Blunt v. McCormick, 3 Denio, 283 ; Thayer v. Brooks, 17 Ohio, 489.

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  • Thanks But No Tank v. Department of Environmental Protection

    86 A.3d 1 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 24, 2013

    v. … Hoitt v.

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  • Ryan v. City of Lewiston

    86 Me. 125 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 20, 1893

    While he was such member of the City Council, the Board of Fire Commissioners undertook to remove him from his office of assistant engineer, June 9, 1892. … Andrews v. King, 77 Maine, 239, and cases there cited. II. It is urged that by accepting the office of councilman, the plaintiff vacated the office of assistant engineer, the two offices being incompatible.

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  • State of Maine v. Raymond Bellavance Jr.

    65 A.3d 1235 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 11, 2013

    State v. … State v. Brown, 2000 ME 25, ¶ 19, 757 A.2d 768 (quoting Morris v. Slappy, 461 U.S. 1, 11-12 (1983)); see also United States v.

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  • Berry v. Ross

    94 Me. 270 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 15, 1900

    The men on board the Bill payed out the line until orders came from the tug to “belay”, when the line on board the Bill was made fast to her port windlass-bitts. … Handley v. Call, 30 Maine, 19; Ham v. Ham, 39 Maine, 263. Cumulative evidence is additional evidence of the same kind, to the same point. Glidden v. Dunlap, 28 Maine, 379; McLaughlin v. Doane, 56 Maine, 290; Parker v.

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  • City of Bath v. Reed

    78 Me. 276 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 11, 1886

    . *279 By § 6 of the city charter, as amended by c. 538 of Special Laws of 1874, it is provided that there shall be a board of three assessors to be elected by the city council, one member of which board is to be elected … Soc. v. Sperry, 10 Conn. 200 ; Kelsey v. Wright, 1 Root, (Conn.) 83; People v. Runkel, 9 Johns. 147 ; Trustees v. Hills, 6 Cow. 23 ; Currie v. Medical Assurance Soc. 4 Hen. and M. (Va.) 315.

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  • Rega v. L.S.R.

    5 A.3d 666 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 12, 2010

    See Nadeau v. Nadeau, 2008 ME 147, ¶ 42 , 957 A.2d 108, 120 . … See Brown v. Habrle, 2008 ME 17, ¶ 13 , 940 A.2d 1091, 1095 ; Carter v.

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  • Lovely-Belyea v. Maine State Retirement System

    2002 Me. 138 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 16, 2002

    We review directly the decisions of the Board of Trustees of the MSRS “for errors of law, abuse of discretion or findings of fact unsupported by competent and substantial evidence in the record.” Richardson v. … See, e.g., Erie County Retirees Ass’n v.

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  • Smith v. Cannell

    32 Me. 123 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1850

    Hubbard v. Norton, 10 Conn. 422 . … Brown v. Staples, 28 Maine, 497. The grantor in the absolute deed has sold the land ; the mortgagee has pledged it only, for the security of the purchase money.

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  • 21 Seabran, LLC v. Town of Naples

    153 A.3d 113 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 5, 2017

    the Board acted as fact-finder and decision-maker.” 6 Rudolph v. … v.

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