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  • Bulger v. Inhabitants of Eden

    9 L.R.A. 205 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 17, 1890

    Lowell, 98 Mass. 570 ); or health officers, or municipal officers in the discharge of their duties in relation to contagious diseases, *357 (Mitchell v. Rockland, 52 Maine, 118; Brown v. … “These provisions,” say the court, “make the selectmen a board of public officers charged with this duty; they are not agents of the town, but they represent the general public.”

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Hovey v. Mayo

    43 Me. 322 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1857

    Callender v. Marsh, 1 Pick., 416 ; R. S. of 1841, chap. 25, sec. 1, and ref.; Brown v. City of Lowell, 8 Met., 172 . … Andover and Medford Turnpike v. Gould, 6 Mass., 40 ; Bangor House Proprietary v. Hinkley, 3 Fairf., 385; Boston v. Shaw, 1 Met., 130 .

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Neal L. Weinstein v. Old Orchard Beach Family Dentistry, LLC

    271 A.3d 758 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 8, 2022

    Dental Board is irrelevant. … Truman v. Browne, 2001 ME 182, ¶ 15, 788 A.2d 168. [¶48] Here, Narowetz made complaints to various regulatory agencies.

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  • Ricker v. Barry

    34 Me. 116 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1852

    The principal objection made to a maintenance of the suit is, that the plaintiff “ has blocked up and cut off the passage way by a board fence across it.” The testimony does not *122 appear to support the allegation. … Brown, for the defendants. A default is to be entered in each of the three actions.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Secure Environments, Inc. v. Town of Norridgewock

    544 A.2d 319 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 27, 1988

    I conclude that this case is governed by our decisions in Wakelin v. Town of Yarmouth, 523 A.2d 575 (Me.1987) and Cope v. … See e.g., Board of Dental Examiners v. Brown, 448 A.2d 881, 884 (Me.1982) (standards for revocation of dentists’ licenses); Lewis v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Opinion of the Justices

    161 Me. 182 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 11, 1965

    Brown v. Gerald, 100 Me. 351, 360 , 61 A. 785 . Writing of the dual corporate and governmental capacity of a municipality, our Supreme Judicial Court said in Libby v. … Hooper v. Emery, 14 Me. 375 ; Concord v. Delaney, 58 Me. 309 .

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  • James R. Eaton v. Kelly L. Paradis

    91 A.3d 590 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 29, 2014

    Although the court recognized that Brown had a “parent-like” relationship with the children, the court concluded that neither the parents nor the children had acknowledged Brown as a parent as required by Philbrook v. … See Davis v. Anderson, 2008 ME 125, ¶ 18 , 953 A.2d 1166 ; Rideout v. Riendeau, 2000 ME 198, ¶ 12 , 761 A.2d 291 (plurality opinion).

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Frost v. Lucey

    231 A.2d 441 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 7, 1967

    See Whitmore v. Brown, 102 Me. 47 , 65 A. 516 , 9 L.R.A..N.S., 868; Houlton v. Titcomb, 102 Me. 272 , 66 A. 733 , 10 L.R.A., N.S., 580; York Harbor Village Corporation v. … See also, Connecticut Sand & Stone Corp. v. Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Avon, (1963) 150 Conn. 439 , 190 A.2d 594 .

    Cited 54 timesPublished
  • Charles R. Maples v. Compass Harbor Village Condominium Association

    2025 ME 19 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 25, 2025

    Brown v. Compass Harbor Vill. Condo. Ass’n, 2020 ME 44, ¶ 3, 229 A.3d 158. … See White v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Ford v. Erskine

    109 Me. 164 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 4, 1912

    Com. v. Cambridge, 7 Mass., 158, 165 ; Raymond v. Co. Commrs., 63 Maine, 112, 114. … See *168 Brown v. Co. Commrs., 12 Met., 208 , 209. See also Smith v. Boston, 194 Mass., 31, 34 . As to the liability of the defendants: One was a member of the board of county commissioners laying out the way.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • State v. Pinkham-Murch

    432 A.2d 1297 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 7, 1981

    At a couple of subsequent meetings of NTI’s board of directors, each sought unsuccessfully to remove the other from the board. … State v. Flick, supra at 169.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Sweetall v. Town of Blue Hill

    661 A.2d 159 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 3, 1995

    Robert V. and Blanche M. … See Bird v.

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  • Demello v. Department of Environmental Protection

    611 A.2d 985 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 7, 1992

    Robinson v. Board of Trustees of Maine State Retirement System, 523 A.2d 1376, 1378 (Me.1987). … See Brown v. Department of Envtl. Protection, 549 A.2d 1138 , 1139 n. 1 (Me.1988) (applying 1985 version of statute, not 1987 amendments, because the claims were filed before the amendments took effect).

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Lovely v. Zoning Bd. of App. of City of Presque Isle

    259 A.2d 666 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 4, 1969

    Such was the holding of a single Justice in Broad-Miami Co. v. Board of Zoning Adjustment (Ohio Com. Pl.1959) 185 N.E.2d 76 . But cf. Beerman v. … Deardorf v. Board of Adjustment of Plan. & Zon. Comm. (1962) 254 Iowa 380 , 118 N.W.2d 78, 81 ; Nelson v. Board of Zoning Appeals of Indianapolis (Ind.App.1959) 158 N.E.2d 167 , 174; see Moody v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Mason v. City of Augusta

    927 A.2d 1146 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 2, 2007

    See, e.g., Stenzel v. Dell, Inc., 2005 ME 37, ¶ 26 , 870 A.2d 133, 143 ; A.L. Brown Constr. Co. v. McGuire, 495 A.2d 794, 796-98 (Me.1985). Accordingly, the court erred in dismissing the complaint. … No. 3 v. Maine Sch. Dist.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • State of Maine v. Michael T. Smith

    2024 ME 56 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 1, 2024

    State v. … See State v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Inhabitants of Yarmouth v. Inhabitants of North Yarmouth

    34 Me. 411 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1852

    Corp. a. 2; Phillips v. Bury, 2 T. R. 346; Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518 ; Allen v. McKeen, 1 Sumner, 276; The People v. Morris, 13 Wend. 325 ; Penobscot Boom Corp. v. … Trustees of the New Gloucester School Fund v. Bradbury, 11 Maine, 118, is a case similar to this at bar, and directly in point. Richardson v. Brown, 6 Maine, 355 ; Terrett v. Taylor, 9 Cranch, 43 ; Pawlet v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Green v. State

    245 A.2d 147 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 20, 1968

    In Smith v. … See, State of Maine v. Couture, 1960, 156 Me. 231, 241 , 163 A.2d 646 . This humanitarian doctrine has gained recent converts. Brown v.

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  • State v. Levesque

    146 Me. 351 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 18, 1951

    In State v. Brown, 103 S. C. 437, 88 S. E. 21 , L. R. … State v. Brown, supra; Bines v. The State, supra.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Cloutier v. Oakland Park Amusement Co.

    129 Me. 454 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 15, 1930

    Through boarded wall or wire screening there was no door or provision for exit. … Selinas v. Vermont Agri. Soc’y, 60 Vt., 249 , 15 Atl., 117 ; Dunn v. Brown Co. Agri. Soc’y, 46 Ohio St., 93 , 18 N. E., 96 .

    Cited 4 timesPublished

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