Posts Categorized: Results

Tyler Smith obtained a hung jury in an OUI trial with a .15 BrAC, leading to a dismissal of the OUI charge against the firm’s client. The client was stopped for running a stop sign. The officer administered the three standardized field sobriety tests and the lack of convergence test. He then arrested the client,… Read more »

Attorney Tyler Smith recently won a recission of a client’s license suspension at a hearing before the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). According to the officer, our client was observed making a dangerous traffic maneuver. After being stopped, the client was subjected to field sobriety tests and, as a result, was arrested for operating… Read more »

Keith Richard successfully obtained a preliminary injunction on behalf of a client seeking title to land by adverse possession.  The injunction effectively halted planned construction of an access road to a subdivision over the property.  Unless the developer finds an alternative access road, the development will be on hold until the conclusion of the litigation.

Keith Richard recently prevailed in an appeal before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court.  Keith successfully overturned an adverse decision for the client in Superior Court, in an appeal that required supplemental briefing and oral argument.  In Hill v. Town of Wells, 2021 ME 38, the Court held that the Wells zoning board… Read more »

Attorneys Gene Libby and Keith Richard recently prevailed in an appeal before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court.  The appeal was briefed and argued by Attorney Richard and this represents his first win at the Court.  The appeal was from a 2018 jury verdict in their client’s favor on claims for legal… Read more »

Attorney Keith P. Richard recently successfully appealed a permit denial decision on behalf of a client in Poland, Maine.  The client applied for a permit to install a dock but was denied on the basis that there was insufficient frontage pursuant to the Town ordinance. At a hearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals, Attorney… Read more »

Attorneys Brian L. Champion and Keith P. Richard recently obtained a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of a case brought against their client doctor in the Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts.

In August 2019, Tyler Smith successfully defended a Town in a lawsuit for judicial review brought by a former town employee.  The Plaintiff argued that his separation from employment was accomplished through means that were pretextual, arbitrary and capricious, and without any rationale basis.  After written briefing and oral argument, the Court rejected these arguments… Read more »