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  • Pamela G. Argereow v. Verne M. Weisberg, M.D.

    195 A.3d 1210 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 16, 2018

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    Cited 34 timesPublished
  • Green Acre Baha'i Institute v. Town of Eliot

    150 Me. 350 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 23, 1954

    Universalist Church v. City of Saco, 136 Me. 202 ; Park Association v. Saco, 127 Me. 136 ; Convention v. Portland, 65 Me. 92 . … Curtis v. Odd Fellows, 99 Me. 356 ; Lewiston v. Fair Association, 138 Me. 39 .

    Cited 32 timesPublished
  • Orr v. Skofield

    56 Me. 483 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1869

    Brown v. Trundy, 31 Maine, 321; Harris v. Burley, 8 N. H., 256. "Whatever words,” remarks Bailey, J., in Whittaker v. Bradley, 16 E. C. … Fowles v. Bowen, 30 N. Y., 20 . " The principle is well settled,” observes J ewett, J., in Kinney v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Pearson v. Freeport School Department

    900 A.2d 728 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 27, 2006

    In Carroll v. … "We will not overturn a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Board hearing officer unless it can be said that the Board lacks a rational basis for its application of law to the facts.” Celentano v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • McCullough v. Visiting Nurse Service of Southern Maine, Inc.

    691 A.2d 1201 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 31, 1997

    See Bakal v. … Gautschi v. Maisel, 565 A.2d 1009, 1011 (Me.1989.)

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • 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
  • Manson v. Lancey

    84 Me. 380 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 28, 1892

    Egery v. Decrew, 53 Maine, 392; Evans v. Smith, 34 Maine, 33; Wood on Limitations, sections 105, 115; Blanchard v. Blanchard, 122 Mass. 558 . … In Amos v. Smith, 1 H. & C.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Wilder v. Sprague

    50 Me. 354 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1863

    Justice Coleridge, in Doe v. Ulph, 66 E. C. … The case of Sears v. Wright, 24 Maine, 278, varies in very material respects from the one now before us. There the logs had been manufactured into boards and the boards had been sold before the suit was commenced.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Whitehouse v. Whitehouse

    129 Me. 24 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 7, 1930

    Franke v. Franke (Cal.), 31 Pac., 371 ; Lyon v. Lyon, 230 Ill., 366 , 82 N. E., 850 ; Browning v. Browning, 89 Kan., 98 , 130 Pac., 852 . … Alexander v. Alexander, 36 App. Cas. (D. C.), 78; Steele v. Steele, 96 Ky., 382 , 29 S. W., 17 ; Montgomery v. Montgomery, 3 Barb. (Ch.), N. Y., 132; Shrady v. Logan, 17 Misc. (N. Y.), 329; 40 N. Y. S., 1010; Bryant v.

    Cited 3 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Buck v. Town of Yarmouth

    402 A.2d 860 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 21, 1979

    See also Inhabitants of Town of North Berwick v. State Board of Education, Me., 227 A.2d 462, 472 (1967). . … Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 , 82 S.Ct. 691 , 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962) (a fraction of a vote); Harper v. Virginia Board of Electors, 383 U.S. 663 , 86 S.Ct. 1079 , 16 L.Ed.2d 169 (1966) (a $1.50 pool tax); McGowan v.

    Cited 20 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

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