Maine Supreme Judicial Court Decisions 2022
Date: December 29, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 63
Docket Number: 2022 ME 63
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the superior court dismissing Plaintiff's tort complaint against Defendant, the firm that represented her ex-husband in her complaint for divorce, as being barred by the…
Date: December 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 61
Docket Number: 2022 ME 61
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction and sentence for gross sexual assault but remanded for the court to determine the appropriate length and conditions of supervised release to be imposed, holding…
Date: December 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 62
Docket Number: 2022 ME 62
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the summary judgment entered in the business and consumer docket in favor of Employee on the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment after the trial court concluded that Employer…
Date: December 13, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 60
Docket Number: 2022 ME 60
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the district court dismissing with prejudice Plaintiff's protection from abuse (PFA) case, holding that the court did not err in determining that Plaintiff had agreed…
Date: December 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 59
Docket Number: 2022 ME 59
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of, among other charges, seventeen counts of sexual exploitation of a minor under the age of twelve, holding that a search of Defendant's smartphone did not…
Date: November 29, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 58
Docket Number: 2022 ME 58
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the business and consumer docket entered in favor of Plaintiffs vacating the Bureau of Parks and Lands' lease of public reserved land to NECEC Transmission LLC and…
Date: November 17, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 57
Docket Number: 2022 ME 57
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of foreclosure and order of sale entered by the district court in favor of Plaintiffs on their complaint for residential foreclosure, holding that Plaintiffs failed to…
Date: November 15, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 56
Docket Number: 2022 ME 56
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the district court striking Mother's "motion to reopen evidence" on Father's motion to modify child support because she failed to pay a filing fee, holding that Mother…
Date: November 10, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 55
Docket Number: 2022 ME 55
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's convictions for attempted murder, aggravated assault, and other crimes following a nonjury trial, holding that there was no error or abuse of discretion in the proceedings…
Date: November 8, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 54
Docket Number: 2022 ME 54
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of conviction of attempted murder and other offenses entered by the trial court, holding that multiple acts of prosecutorial error occurred in this case, requiring remand…
Date: November 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 53
Docket Number: 2022 ME 53
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the district court dismissing with prejudice Grandmother's complaints for determination of de facto parentage concerning her two minor grandchildren, holding that the…
Date: October 25, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 51
Docket Number: 2022 ME 51
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment entered by the probate court appointing the Department of Health and Human Services as T.'s adult guardian and conservator pursuant to Me. Rev. Stat. 5-301, 5-401(2),…
Date: October 25, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 52
Docket Number: 2022 ME 52
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the district court granting Wife's complaint for divorce, holding that the trial court's factual findings were not supported by competent record evidence. On appeal,…
Date: September 27, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 50
Docket Number: 2022 ME 50
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant on two charges of aggravated furnishing of cocaine, which were merged for sentencing, holding that the trial court erred when it denied…
Date: September 8, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 49
Docket Number: 2022 ME 49
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of conviction entered in the trial court upon his conditional guilty plea to drug-related offenses and endangering the welfare of a child, holding that the trial court did…
Date: August 30, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 47
Docket Number: 2022 ME 47
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of conviction of criminal operating under the influence (OUI) with one previous OUI offense and violation of condition of release entered by the trial court after a jury…
Date: August 30, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 48
Date: August 30, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 48
Docket Number: 2022 ME 48
Justia Opinion Summary: On interlocutory appeal in this case involving the New England Clean Energy Connect project (Project), the Supreme Judicial Court held that retroactive application of legislation enacted by voters (the Initiative) to the…
Date: August 25, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 46
Docket Number: 2022 ME 46
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs, holding that the trial court did not err in denying Defendant's motion to suppress, and Defendant's remaining…
Date: August 11, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 45
Docket Number: 2022 ME 45
Justia Opinion Summary: In this post-dissolution action, the Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the district court granting Appellant's motion to amend a stipulated order, holding that the motion to amend the stipulated order was…
Date: August 9, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 43
Docket Number: 2022 ME 43
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated in part and remanded in part the divorce judgment entered by the district court on Husband's complaint, holding that the judgment was improper was to the property division and attorney…
Date: August 9, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 44
Docket Number: 2022 ME 44
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the summary judgment entered by the superior court in favor of Somatex, Inc. on Kim Boivin's complaint alleging that she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result…
Date: July 26, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 42
Docket Number: 2022 ME 42
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the decision of the superior court affirming the order of the Saco River Corridor Commission denying Appellant's application to build a privacy fence along a portion of his property,…
Date: July 5, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 41
Docket Number: 2022 ME 41
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for murder and his sentence of fifty years in prison, holding that there was no error or abuse of discretion. At issue on appeal was whether the trial court…
Date: June 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 38
Docket Number: 2022 ME 38
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the superior court affirming the decision of the Town of Boothbay Harbor's Board of Appeals (BOA) denying 29 McKown, LLC's administrative appeal from a code enforcement…
Date: June 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 39
Docket Number: 2022 ME 39
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the interlocutory order of the district court allowing discovery in a protection from abuse action instituted by Pat Doe against Sam Roe and denying in part Doe's request for a…
Date: June 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 40
Docket Number: 2022 ME 40
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the summary judgment entered by the superior court in favor of the University of Maine System on Plaintiff's claim of negligence based on an injury he sustained from an industrial…
Date: June 23, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 36
Docket Number: 2022 ME 36
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated in part the summary judgment granted in favor of the Maine Tax Assessor entered in the business and consumer docket ruling that TracFone Wireless, Inc.'s Lifeline service was subject to…
Date: June 23, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 37
Docket Number: 2022 ME 37
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed in part and remanded in part a judgment awarding parental rights and responsibilities entered in the district court as to Father's four children with Mother, holding that the court's…
Date: June 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 34
Docket Number: 2022 ME 34
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment entered by the district court extending a weapons restriction placed on J because J presented a likelihood of foreseeable harm, holding that there was no error in the…
Date: June 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 35
Docket Number: 2022 ME 35
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the decision of the superior court denying the Town of Wells's motion for summary judgment in the underlying personal injury suit, holding that the plain language of the Maine Tort…
Date: June 16, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 33
Docket Number: 2022 ME 33
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the district court determining that a settlement agreement signed by the parties constituted a binding contract and granting Plaintiff's motion to enforce the agreement, holding…
Date: June 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 31
Docket Number: 2022 ME 31
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the order entered by the district court dismissing Grandmother's petition for grandparent visitation for lack of standing, holding that there was no error. Grandmother petitioned…
Date: June 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 32
Docket Number: 2022 ME 32
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for operating under the influence, entered after a jury trial, holding that Defendant was not entitled to relief on her allegations of error. After a trial, a…
Date: May 31, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 29
Docket Number: 2022 ME 29
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed in part and vacated in part the summary judgment entered by the superior court in favor of the City of Lewiston on the City's land use complaint alleging two violations of City…
Date: May 31, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 30
Docket Number: 2022 ME 30
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court dismissed this appeal from a decision of the superior court denying the City of Bangor's motion for summary judgment in a personal injury suit brought by the estate of Albert Bean (the Estate),…
Date: May 24, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 28
Docket Number: 2022 ME 28
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the superior court affirming the judgment of the district court that denied Landlord's forcible entry and detainer (FED) action to oust Tenant from possession of…
Date: May 17, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 27
Docket Number: 2022 ME 27
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for certain domestic violence incidents, including possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, holding that Defendant was not entitled to relief on his…
Date: April 26, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 26
Docket Number: 2022 ME 26
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court dismissed this appeal from an order entered in the business and consumer document granting a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' complaint seeking to enforce a prior judgment awarding them damages…
Date: April 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 25
Date: April 12, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 24
Docket Number: 2022 ME 24
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of murdering a deputy sheriff and sentencing Defendant to life imprisonment, holding that there was no error. After his…
Date: April 5, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 21
Docket Number: 2022 ME 21
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated in part the judgment of the superior court affirming the Board of Environmental Protection's decision to upheld a cleanup order issued by the Commissioner of the Department of…
Date: April 5, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 22
Docket Number: 2022 ME 22
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the trial court suppressing Defendant's blood test results in the State's prosecution of Defendant for operating under the influence, holding that the findings of the…
Date: April 5, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 23
Docket Number: 2022 ME 23
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the district court that characterized the court's prior order on Appellants' motion for a preliminary injunction as a ruling on the merits and entering a final judgment…
Date: March 31, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 19
Docket Number: 2022 ME 19
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the superior court affirming the decision of the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) to grant an aquaculture lease to Mere Point Oyster Company, LLC (MPOC) in Maquoit…
Date: March 31, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 20
Docket Number: 2022 ME 20
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court dismissed this appeal from an order of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) declining to open a formal investigation into a water bill issued to General Marine Construction Corp. by the…
Date: March 15, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 17
Docket Number: 2022 ME 17
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the order of the superior court granting summary judgment in favor of the University of Maine System and the University of Maine and dismissing Plaintiff's complaint asserting…
Date: March 8, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 16
Docket Number: 2022 ME 16
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the superior court dismissing Plaintiff's seven-count complaint against Marina Narowetz, DDS, and her dental practice (collectively, Defendants), holding that the…
Date: March 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 15
Docket Number: 2022 ME 15
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the order entered by the superior court affirming the decision of the Town of Old Orchard Beach to deny Appellant's application to build a greenhouse in the front yard of her…
Date: February 17, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 14
Docket Number: 2022 ME 14
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the district court terminating Father's parental rights as to his child, holding that Father was not denied due process and that Father failed to prove his claim of…
Date: February 15, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 13
Docket Number: 2022 ME 13
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the divorce judgment entered by the district court in which the court adopted a referee's determination of the parties' child's primary residence and awarded Kristina Toland marital…
Date: February 10, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 12
Docket Number: 2022 ME 12
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court declined to consider a question certified to the Court by the First Circuit Court of Appeals, holding that there was no clear controlling precedent. Plaintiff brought a complaint in a federal…
Date: February 3, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 10
Docket Number: 2022 ME 10
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of intentional or knowing murder, holding that there was no error. On appeal, Defendant argued that the trial court erred in…
Date: February 3, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 11
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for gross sexual assault and sexual misconduct with a child under twelve years of age, holding that the trial court did not err or abuse its discretion in…
Date: February 3, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 9
Docket Number: 2022 ME 9
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court dismissed as interlocutory this appeal from a partial summary judgment entered by the superior court in favor of Defendants on Plaintiffs' complaint, holding that the court improvidently…
Date: January 27, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 7
Docket Number: 2022 ME 7
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the divorce judgment entered by the district court that awarded shared parental rights and responsibilities concerning the parties' minor children, holding that the court impermissibly…
Date: January 27, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 8
Docket Number: 2022 ME 8
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the decision of the superior court denying the motion to compel arbitration brought by Uber Technologies, Inc. and Rasier, LLC (collectively, Uber) in this action brought by Patricia…
Date: January 25, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 6
Docket Number: 2022 ME 6
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the district court in favor of Quang Pham on Atlantic Home Solutions, Inc.'s claim for recovery of personal property pursuant to Me. Rev. Stat. 14, 7071, holding that…
Date: January 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 5
Docket Number: 2022 ME 5
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed in part the judgment entered in the Business and Consumer Docket (BCD) awarding attorney fees and expenses to Forney & Weygandt, Inc. (F&W) but vacated a portion of the judgment…
Date: January 13, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 4
Docket Number: 2022 ME 4
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the superior court's order concluding that because Jackson Lumber & Millwork Co. was both the mortgagee and the purchaser at the public sale of certain foreclosed property the fair market value…
Date: January 11, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 3
Docket Number: 2022 ME 3
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the superior court granting the motion of Defendant, Plaintiff's former employer, to dismiss Plaintiff's disability discrimination and failure to accommodate claims as…
Date: January 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 1
Docket Number: 2022 ME 1
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of the probate court denying Mother's petition to modify or terminate an order of the superior court that transferred custody and guardianship of her child to the child's…
Date: January 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 ME 2
Docket Number: 2022 ME 2
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the summary judgment entered in the superior court in favor of Defendant and dismissing Plaintiff's complaint alleging unlawful discrimination, retaliation, and discharge, holding that…
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