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Maine Supreme Judicial Court rules that variance granted in 1973 remains effective

Gene Libby and Tyler Smith of Libby O’Brien Kingsley & Champion successfully defended an appeal in a land use case before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Campbell v. City of South Portland, 2015 ME 125. Our client owns a parcel of land in South Portland.  In 1973, a prior owner obtained a dimensional variance allowing… Read more »

Jury awards client damages after 17 years

Gene Libby and Tyler Smith of Libby O’Brien Kingsley & Champion, LLC recently represented a client attempting to recover damages as a third-party beneficiary to a contract (actually a letter) prepared by the client’s father in 1998.  The letter provided that the father’s son and daughter-in-law, as well as another son (the client), would share… Read more »