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Contract Zoning: A Flexible Technique For Protecting Maine Municipalities, Maine Law Review
Contract Zoning: A Flexible Technique For Protecting Maine Municipalities, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
Since the constitutionality of comprehensive zoning plans was upheld by the 1926 United States Supreme Court decision in Euclid v. Ambler Realty, municipal zoning has become an acceptable, indeed a necessary, fact of life. Maine, as well as most states, has enacted zoning enabling legislation pursuant to which many Maine municipalities have adopted zoning ordinances. The standard zoning approach which has evolved since Euclid has been based largely on the concept of uniform gridiron districts which conform to a legislatively preconceived comprehensive plan intended to assist municipalities in maintaining an orderly growth. These comprehensive plans, however, frequently have become a …
Preliminary Questions Of Fact: Respective Roles Of Judge And Jury In Maine Courts, Maine Law Review
Preliminary Questions Of Fact: Respective Roles Of Judge And Jury In Maine Courts, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
Virtually indisputable in the law is the notion that the trial judge determines questions of admissibility of evidence. However, when admissibility depends upon the evaluation of a preliminary question of fact, both courts and commentators disagree as to whether the judge should continue to occupy the role of sole decision-maker. The intertwining of fact, the preliminary condition, and law, the admissibility decision, raises some havoc with accepted views of the judge as arbiter of the law and the jury as fact finder. If the judge determines both questions, he is resolving not only legal, but also factual issues traditionally within …
Comparative Negligence And Comparative Contribution In Maine: The Need For Guidelines, Maine Law Review
Comparative Negligence And Comparative Contribution In Maine: The Need For Guidelines, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
In the recent case of Packard v. Whitten, Maine became the second state to adopt the doctrine of comparative contribution among joint tortfeasors. The decision stressed the point that comparative contribution was merely a logical outgrowth of Maine's Comparative Negligence Statute and that, in particular, the 1969 amendment to that law "would appear to have little purpose except to lay the basis for a comparative contribution." The court concluded that the implementation of this new doctrine would pose no major problems: "More than five years' experience in apportioning causal fault under our Comparative Negligence Law convinces us that this change …
Arbitration As An Alternative To Judicial Settlement: Some Selected Perspectives, Mashall E. Lippman
Arbitration As An Alternative To Judicial Settlement: Some Selected Perspectives, Mashall E. Lippman
Maine Law Review
The increasing interest in arbitration as a means of judicial reform has been largely due to the fact that arbitration provides a forum for dispute settlement apart from the traditional judicial system. In other words, arbitration is regarded as a useful reform measure primarily because it affords potential litigants a forum other than the already over-burdened courts. Little consideration has been given to the possibility that in some areas arbitration may in fact be both a better forum and a better method of resolving disputes than the traditional judicial system. This article will discuss three areas, areas which are susceptible …
Federal Evaluation Of Riparian Property: Section 111 Of The Rivers And Harbors Act Of 1970, Ronald C. Allen
Federal Evaluation Of Riparian Property: Section 111 Of The Rivers And Harbors Act Of 1970, Ronald C. Allen
Maine Law Review
Certain of our citizenry persist in their belief that the water resources of this nation are essentially a free good which necessitates very little, if any, governmental interference in the development or beneficial exploitation of these resources. Theirs is obviously a dream world which dangerously ignores evidence from much of our history as well as the obvious conditions of the present. The nation is confronted with too many people, and the promise of many more, making too many demands upon our existing and foreseeable supply of water to allow the perpetuation of a myth of rugged individualism. This attitude has …
The Role Of The Maine Law Court In Abrogating The Common Law Doctrines Of Governmental And Charitable Immunity From Tort Liability, Maine Law Review
The Role Of The Maine Law Court In Abrogating The Common Law Doctrines Of Governmental And Charitable Immunity From Tort Liability, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
During the last decade the Maine Law Court refused to overrule two common law doctrines which effectively insulated certain tortfeasors from liability for their negligent conduct. The purpose of this comment is to determine if the public policy issues embodied in the immunity rules and the reliance interests attributed to those rules by the Law Court justified the radical departure from the court's traditional role of deciding cases properly before it.
Argersinger And The Right To Counsel In The Military, Maine Law Review
Argersinger And The Right To Counsel In The Military, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The dramatic advances made since 1965 in recognizing the right to counsel for accused indigents have steadily, albeit unevenly, extended to military courts-martial. Despite this progress, many questions remain unresolved regarding right to counsel both generally and in the military. While the right to counsel is solidified in general courts-martial, it remains precarious in special and summary courts-martial, for the right to lawyer counsel is defeasible where a military exigency is shown in the former and lawyer counsel is not yet required service-wide in the latter. The military exigency exception to full sixth amendment rights to easily degenerates into a …
Graduated Responsibility As An Alternative To Current Tests Of Determining Criminal Capacity, Maine Law Review
Graduated Responsibility As An Alternative To Current Tests Of Determining Criminal Capacity, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
When a person breaks the law, inquiry may be made into why he acted in an illegal manner and, if he satisfies the relevant test of criminal exculpation, he will be held blameless under the law. Although a range of explanations of behavior is possible, when examining criminal responsibility, the law is concerned only with those excuses which bear on moral culpability. This comment suggests an alternative to the absolutist notion that the defendant is either completely responsible or completely irresponsible for his unlawful act. It is contended that cognitive and volitive capacities exist by degrees and that a fairer, …
Applying Federal Antitrust Law To Banking Services—Noninterest-Bearing Mortgage Escrow Accounts, Maine Law Review
Applying Federal Antitrust Law To Banking Services—Noninterest-Bearing Mortgage Escrow Accounts, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
It is reasonable that lenders should require mortgage escrow accounts on high loan-to-value mortgages, for lenders are extending a significant amount of credit. Since a house is often the single most valuable purchase ever made by a family, that house is often the only asset of sufficient value to secure the loan. Therefore, the lender will want assurances that the value of the house will be maintained. Mortgage escrow accounts help provide that assurance by protecting against tax liens and accidental damage. But noninterest-bearing mortgage escrow accounts have recently come under fire from consumer advocates. The complaint is that the …
Variable Life Insurance And The Federal Securities Laws, Maine Law Review
Variable Life Insurance And The Federal Securities Laws, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently ruled that variable life insurance contracts are "securities" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and, therefore, subject to the registration and disclosure requirements of those acts. Perhaps more significantly, the SEC also found the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 applicable to companies issuing variable life insurance, but decided to exempt insurance companies from the requirements of these statutes in deference to developing state regulation. This comment explores the legal issues raised by the SEC decision.
The Private Offering: Rule 146 And Offeree Sophistication, Maine Law Review
The Private Offering: Rule 146 And Offeree Sophistication, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The fundamental premise of the Securities Act of 1933 is that protection of the investor is achieved by requiring the dissemination of information essential to an informed investment decision. Carved from this general requirement are exemptions from registration dealing with certain types of securities and transactions. This lack of clarity has created a situation in which the SEC continues to list the characteristics of a private offering while the judiciary seizes upon particular factors as determinative tests. In response to the need for "greater certainty in the application of the Section 4(2) exemption, the SEC has recently proposed Rule 146 …
A National Environmental Policy: Now You See It, Now You Don't, Edward S. Muskie, Eliot R. Cutler
A National Environmental Policy: Now You See It, Now You Don't, Edward S. Muskie, Eliot R. Cutler
Maine Law Review
The National Environmental Policy Act was born with a fanfare of rhetoric. Suddenly sensitive to the urgency of the environmental crisis, Congress passed the bill quickly, and President Nixon seized the opportunity to sign it on the first day of the new decade. During its early years, NEPA was hailed by environmental activists as nothing short of a panacea; the environmentalists were nearly unanimous in singing its praises. At the same time, industrialists warned that NEPA's provisions could stop growth and progress in their tracks. But in recent months the battle lines have begun to shift. When the subject of …
Toward The Wired Society: Prospects, Problems, And Proposals For A National Policy On Cable Technology, Gary H. Gerlach
Toward The Wired Society: Prospects, Problems, And Proposals For A National Policy On Cable Technology, Gary H. Gerlach
Maine Law Review
The city is already encroaching on the countryside in a modest cultural sense. Today many remote New England villages receive more channels of New York City television, and receive them more clearly, than do most residents of the five boroughs of the great city. This anomaly is because of a relatively new and still evolving technology, popularly called cable television. This article primarily addresses the broad problems now confronting the American people on how to devise wise national policies that will put this technology of the new communications to its best uses for the most people. In short, how is …
Constitutional Issues In Durational Party Affiliation Requirements, Maine Law Review
Constitutional Issues In Durational Party Affiliation Requirements, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The recent decision of the Supreme Court declaring durational residency requirements for voting in general elections unconstitutional has raised the analogous question of the constitutionality of state-imposed durational party affiliation requirements for voting in primary elections. These requirements base a voter's eligibility to participate in a primary not solely on his affiliation with the party, but also on the additional requirement that the party affiliation has extended over a period prior to the primary. This additional requirement has recently been successfully attacked in several states as violative of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. However, New York's statutory …
Lloyd Corp. V. Tanner: A Shopping Center Open For Business But Not For Dissent, Maine Law Review
Lloyd Corp. V. Tanner: A Shopping Center Open For Business But Not For Dissent, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
Self-government in the United States is facilitated by adherence to the traditional principles of freedom of speech and private property. The first requirement of a self-governing community is an electorate with sufficient knowledge to regulate its own affairs wisely. Hopefully, that requirement is fulfilled by free interchange of ideas. But the viability of free speech depends in part on the concept of private property, which secures to the individual an area of insulation from societal influences. Both free speech and private property are constitutionally protected from governmental interference, the former by the First Amendment and the latter by the Fifth …
Cross-Appeals In Maine: Pitfalls For The Winning Litigant, Maine Law Review
Cross-Appeals In Maine: Pitfalls For The Winning Litigant, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The question of when a winning party must cross-appeal to challenge non-determinative findings in defense of a favorable judgment was answered for the first time in Maine in the recent case of Littlefield v. Littlefield. Noting a split of authority between the federal and state courts, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court unpredictably determined that an appellee must file a cross-appeal if he seeks to attack adverse findings which, if decided differently, would adequately support the judgment. In Littlefield, the court's objective was to provide notice to opposing parties. Recognizing that this end is a legitimate concern, the question here is …
Vagueness And The Vermont Long-Arm Statute, Maine Law Review
Vagueness And The Vermont Long-Arm Statute, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The authority of state courts to assert jurisdiction over the person of nonresidents has expanded markedly since the days of Pennoyer v. Neff. Different theories for asserting jurisdiction over individuals, as opposed to corporations, have been discarded. For jurisdictional purposes, the common law classifications of in personam, in rem and quasi in rem have been abandoned. "Minimum contacts" has become the all-embracing rationale for reviewing any assertion of jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant by a state court. But if "minimum contacts" has replaced these former concepts and served to simplify and unify the requirements of due process, it has also …
Dismissals For Pregnancy In Government Employment, Maine Law Review
Dismissals For Pregnancy In Government Employment, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
For those who litigate sex discrimination cases, the most difficult problems theoretically are those which involve characteristics that are not common to both sexes. Discrimination on the basis of pregnancy is the most obvious example and is probably the most difficult to attack. Male employers, judges and even obstetricians are outsiders to the experience of pregnancy, and to many of them the process verges on the mysterious. Masculine attitudes toward pregnancy range from protectiveness to contempt, but they are seldom neutral. Because counsel for women plaintiffs contesting pregnancy employment regulations work in a sensitive area, they should be especially careful …
Attorneys And The Summary Contempt Sanction, Maine Law Review
Attorneys And The Summary Contempt Sanction, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
It is indisputable that an orderly, disciplined courtroom is a prerequisite for the administration of justice. Rules necessarily backed by sanctions insure needed decorum and sobriety within the courtroom. One method used to promote courtroom order is the summary criminal contempt procedure embodied in 18 U.S.C. § 401(1) and implemented under Rule 42(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. In practice, the nature of the procedure has triggered criticism that summary criminal punishment of indecorous courtroom conduct fails to provide constitutional safeguards of due process of law. Most recently, the decision of In re Dellinger has reemphasized the problems …
Postjudgment Procedures For Collection Of Small Debts: The Maine Solution, Maine Law Review
Postjudgment Procedures For Collection Of Small Debts: The Maine Solution, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
Debtors' rights and the due process of debt collection have received increasing attention recently in legislative as well as judicial spheres. There have been many efforts to rectify basic contractual inequities, to abolish summary prejudgment remedies and to limit extra-judicial collection abuses. However, comparatively little scrutiny has been focused on postjudgment or post-hearing remedies in the later stages of the collection process. Until recently, Maine's legal remedies for postjudgment debt collection were notorious for their harshness. Jail, the principal sanction, was freely used as a creditors' club to make debtors settle claims. Although inability to pay was not in itself …
State Action And Waiver Implications Of Self-Help Repossession, Maine Law Review
State Action And Waiver Implications Of Self-Help Repossession, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
In Adams v. Egley, a California federal district court held the repossession sections of the Uniform Commercial Code to be unconstitutional as a denial of due process. The Adams court relied on Sniadach v. Family Finance Co., in which the Supreme Court invalidated the Wisconsin prejudgment wage garnishment law as violative of due process because property was garnished under the statute without hearing or notice to the wage-earning debtor. When Adams was decided, the scope of Sniadach was the subject of extensive judicial dispute. Since then, the Supreme Court's decision in Fuentes v. Shevin has clarified the meaning of Sniadach …
Defense Of Indigents In Maine: The Need For Public Defenders, Peter Avery Anderson
Defense Of Indigents In Maine: The Need For Public Defenders, Peter Avery Anderson
Maine Law Review
During the past ten years the United States Supreme Court has engineered a major reworking of criminal procedure through judicial review. In no area of criminal procedure has the overhaul been so drastic as in the right to court appointed counsel. From a time when court appointment of counsel was virtually nonexistent, the right has been expanded to the extent that counsel is now available in nearly all cases and stages of the proceedings. This rapid growth of the right to counsel has placed an understandable strain on state and federal judicial systems. Various means of coping with the demands …
Argersinger And The Right To Counsel In The Military, Maine Law Review
Argersinger And The Right To Counsel In The Military, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The dramatic advances made since 1965 in recognizing the right to counsel for accused indigents have steadily, albeit unevenly, extended to military courts-martial. Despite this progress, many questions remain unresolved regarding right to counsel both generally and in the military. While the right to counsel is solidified in general courts-martial, it remains precarious in special and summary courts-martial, for the right to lawyer counsel is defeasible where a military exigency is shown in the former and lawyer counsel is not yet required service-wide in the latter. The military exigency exception to full sixth amendment rights to easily degenerates into a …
The Role Of The Maine Law Court In Abrogating The Common Law Doctrines Of Governmental And Charitable Immunity From Tort Liability, Maine Law Review
The Role Of The Maine Law Court In Abrogating The Common Law Doctrines Of Governmental And Charitable Immunity From Tort Liability, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
During the last decade the Maine Law Court refused to overrule two common law doctrines which effectively insulated certain tortfeasors from liability for their negligent conduct. The purpose of this comment is to determine if the public policy issues embodied in the immunity rules and the reliance interests attributed to those rules by the Law Court justified the radical departure from the court's traditional role of deciding cases properly before it.
Applying Federal Antitrust Law To Banking Services—Noninterest-Bearing Mortgage Escrow Accounts, Maine Law Review
Applying Federal Antitrust Law To Banking Services—Noninterest-Bearing Mortgage Escrow Accounts, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
It is reasonable that lenders should require mortgage escrow accounts on high loan-to-value mortgages, for lenders are extending a significant amount of credit. Since a house is often the single most valuable purchase ever made by a family, that house is often the only asset of sufficient value to secure the loan. Therefore, the lender will want assurances that the value of the house will be maintained. Mortgage escrow accounts help provide that assurance by protecting against tax liens and accidental damage. But noninterest-bearing mortgage escrow accounts have recently come under fire from consumer advocates. The complaint is that the …
Graduated Responsibility As An Alternative To Current Tests Of Determining Criminal Capacity, Maine Law Review
Graduated Responsibility As An Alternative To Current Tests Of Determining Criminal Capacity, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
When a person breaks the law, inquiry may be made into why he acted in an illegal manner and, if he satisfies the relevant test of criminal exculpation, he will be held blameless under the law. Although a range of explanations of behavior is possible, when examining criminal responsibility, the law is concerned only with those excuses which bear on moral culpability. This comment suggests an alternative to the absolutist notion that the defendant is either completely responsible or completely irresponsible for his unlawful act. It is contended that cognitive and volitive capacities exist by degrees and that a fairer, …
The Private Offering: Rule 146 And Offeree Sophistication, Maine Law Review
The Private Offering: Rule 146 And Offeree Sophistication, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The fundamental premise of the Securities Act of 1933 is that protection of the investor is achieved by requiring the dissemination of information essential to an informed investment decision. Carved from this general requirement are exemptions from registration dealing with certain types of securities and transactions. This lack of clarity has created a situation in which the SEC continues to list the characteristics of a private offering while the judiciary seizes upon particular factors as determinative tests. In response to the need for "greater certainty in the application of the Section 4(2) exemption, the SEC has recently proposed Rule 146 …
Variable Life Insurance And The Federal Securities Laws, Maine Law Review
Variable Life Insurance And The Federal Securities Laws, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently ruled that variable life insurance contracts are "securities" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and, therefore, subject to the registration and disclosure requirements of those acts. Perhaps more significantly, the SEC also found the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 applicable to companies issuing variable life insurance, but decided to exempt insurance companies from the requirements of these statutes in deference to developing state regulation. This comment explores the legal issues raised by the SEC decision.
A National Environmental Policy: Now You See It, Now You Don't, Edward S. Muskie, Eliot R. Cutler
A National Environmental Policy: Now You See It, Now You Don't, Edward S. Muskie, Eliot R. Cutler
Maine Law Review
The National Environmental Policy Act was born with a fanfare of rhetoric. Suddenly sensitive to the urgency of the environmental crisis, Congress passed the bill quickly, and President Nixon seized the opportunity to sign it on the first day of the new decade. During its early years, NEPA was hailed by environmental activists as nothing short of a panacea; the environmentalists were nearly unanimous in singing its praises. At the same time, industrialists warned that NEPA's provisions could stop growth and progress in their tracks. But in recent months the battle lines have begun to shift. When the subject of …
Toward The Wired Society: Prospects, Problems, And Proposals For A National Policy On Cable Technology, Gary H. Gerlach
Toward The Wired Society: Prospects, Problems, And Proposals For A National Policy On Cable Technology, Gary H. Gerlach
Maine Law Review
The city is already encroaching on the countryside in a modest cultural sense. Today many remote New England villages receive more channels of New York City television, and receive them more clearly, than do most residents of the five boroughs of the great city. This anomaly is because of a relatively new and still evolving technology, popularly called cable television. This article primarily addresses the broad problems now confronting the American people on how to devise wise national policies that will put this technology of the new communications to its best uses for the most people. In short, how is …