Allison Dunn

January 05, 2023 | Law.com

In recent years, the Maine Judicial Branch created an "Access Team" to identify and remove barriers that may affect access to justice. Now, a Limited English Proficiency (LEP) advisory committee will help assist court administrative offices, judicial leadership, trial court judges, and other court personnel with issues associated with access to the court system by those with limited English proficiency or those who are hard of hearing, according to the amended charter issued Dec. 22.

By Allison Dunn

2 minute read

January 04, 2023 | Law.com

A woman will be allowed to proceed with claims of abuse of process and intentional infliction of emotional distress against a law firm that represented her ex-husband in a divorce proceeding after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court concluded that her tort complaint was not barred by the doctrine of issue preclusion.

By Allison Dunn

4 minute read

January 04, 2023 | Law.com

"Judge Moon's lengthy opinion reviewing the mountain of evidence we introduced at trial and affirming the jury verdicts on the culpability of each and every defendant confirms what really happened—motivated by the tenets of white supremacy, defendants engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to commit violence in Charlottesville in August 2017," plaintiffs counsel said.

By Allison Dunn

7 minute read

December 30, 2022 | Law.com

The plaintiffs alleged in part that Greenville failed to provide proper safety equipment, including a fire extinguisher.

By Allison Dunn

7 minute read

December 29, 2022 | Law.com

"Plaintiffs have highlighted several unqualified 'Made in USA' claims still in use including on the tongues of shoes, in their inside label, and on the New Balance website," Judge Angel Kelley wrote.

By Allison Dunn

4 minute read

December 28, 2022 | Law.com

"We believe that notwithstanding the instruction that the jury did not receive from the trial judge, we expect that the jury will be able with the new instruction to find that a reasonable use of the golf course was not being made by the golf course owner and the course's unreasonable use has caused a significant amount of golf balls to strike their home, cause significant property damages, and substantial mental anguish," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Robert W. Galvin of Galvin & Galvin.

By Allison Dunn

4 minute read

December 27, 2022 | Law.com

"Accordingly, at the summary judgment stage, the Court is prohibited from drawing an adverse inference against every fact Keating did not deny as a result of invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination during the deposition," Bryant wrote.

By Allison Dunn

5 minute read

December 21, 2022 | Law.com

"Through Von Sacken's efforts, plaintiffs went from a neglectful (and in the baby's case, abusive) home to a living hell, which certainly meets the definition of an affirmative act," Senior Judge Richard F. Suhrheinrich wrote on behalf of the unanimous panel.

By Allison Dunn

6 minute read

December 20, 2022 | Law.com

"Without Young Management's solicitation of Plaintiffs' business and facilitation of their hotel booking in Massachusetts, Plaintiffs would not have traveled to the Koro Sun Resort and Lauren Hamilton would not have been injured by the resort's lounge chair. Accordingly, Section 3(a) of Massachusetts's long-arm statute encompasses Young Management's activities in the commonwealth," Judge Patti B. Saris wrote.

By Allison Dunn

4 minute read

December 16, 2022 | Law.com

"A provision such as this bears no reasonable relationship to expected damages and is thus unenforceable as a penalty," Associate Justice Sookyoung Shin wrote on behalf of the unanimous panel.

By Allison Dunn

5 minute read