In Maine there are two different state trial courts. The superior court is the jury trial forum, to which most people refer valuable civil and weighty criminal issues. The district court, on the other hand, is the “peoples\u27 court,” where judges decide cases without juries in order to provide litigants with a fast track to the resolution of their simpler (or, at least, less consequential) civil and criminal cases. Maine District Court judges rarely grapple with grand constitutional issues like abortion or free speech, they hardly ever encounter flashy murder cases, and they never participate in headline products liability trials. Instead, they spend most of their time hearing misdemeanors, juvenile offenses, traffic violations, domestic v...
Though plaintiffs in two recent court cases in Maine received large awards, Sumner Lipman, an August...
Abstract: Appellate courts provide important institutional oversight in any judicial system, particu...
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Daniel Wathen yesterday said the $30 billion federal crim...
In Maine there are two different state trial courts. The superior court is the jury trial forum, to ...
The Maine Superior Court is a general jurisdiction trial court with sixteen full-time justices who t...
For the entire 178 years of Maine\u27s statehood, its Supreme Judicial Court, “sitting as the Law Co...
Maine\u27s judges are appointed to a seven-year term by the governor and confirmed by the Maine Sena...
Perhaps in no other area of the law is a trial court\u27s power greater than when it is given the ta...
The right to a civil jury trial is a cornerstone of the American legal system. The Maine Constitutio...
City piece on court-appointed lawyers in Maine. The court allows lawyers to bill a maximum of $500...
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Daniel E Wathen yesterday told legislators that the state...
Cover Story piece on the jury selection process in Maine, which is one of just eight states that al...
The caseload of the Law Court, not unlike the trial courts, has expanded significantly over the last...
The recent mandate to all organs of Maine state government to make major budget cuts in a time of in...
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has overturned three guilty verdicts since April, citing improper s...
Though plaintiffs in two recent court cases in Maine received large awards, Sumner Lipman, an August...
Abstract: Appellate courts provide important institutional oversight in any judicial system, particu...
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Daniel Wathen yesterday said the $30 billion federal crim...
In Maine there are two different state trial courts. The superior court is the jury trial forum, to ...
The Maine Superior Court is a general jurisdiction trial court with sixteen full-time justices who t...
For the entire 178 years of Maine\u27s statehood, its Supreme Judicial Court, “sitting as the Law Co...
Maine\u27s judges are appointed to a seven-year term by the governor and confirmed by the Maine Sena...
Perhaps in no other area of the law is a trial court\u27s power greater than when it is given the ta...
The right to a civil jury trial is a cornerstone of the American legal system. The Maine Constitutio...
City piece on court-appointed lawyers in Maine. The court allows lawyers to bill a maximum of $500...
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Daniel E Wathen yesterday told legislators that the state...
Cover Story piece on the jury selection process in Maine, which is one of just eight states that al...
The caseload of the Law Court, not unlike the trial courts, has expanded significantly over the last...
The recent mandate to all organs of Maine state government to make major budget cuts in a time of in...
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has overturned three guilty verdicts since April, citing improper s...
Though plaintiffs in two recent court cases in Maine received large awards, Sumner Lipman, an August...
Abstract: Appellate courts provide important institutional oversight in any judicial system, particu...
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Daniel Wathen yesterday said the $30 billion federal crim...