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If confirmed, Stacey D. Neumann will fill the District of Maine position that will be vacated by U.S. District Judge Jon Levy on May 6.

Richard Rich Jr., 55, was sentenced to four and a half years in federal prison, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Maine.

While those who defend personal injury claims see the Limitation of Liability Act as essential, many plaintiffs’ lawyers have a visceral antipathy toward what they view as an outdated law.

The wreckage of the dive boat Conception on a dock in southern California, the result of a 2019 fire that killed 34 people (ASSOCIATED PRESS) While those who defend personal injury claims arising from maritime accidents see the Limitation of Liability Act as essential in protecting the country’s shipping industry, many plaintiffs’ lawyers have a

The Penobscot County (Maine) Courthouse. (Courthouse News via Wikipedia) (CN) — A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it. In black and white, Maine’s new restriction on access to electronic court records exposes the tarnished bones of an old battle. It is the most blatant example yet of an American court walking forward on technology and in synchronous motion walking backward on transparency. A court committee itself operating in secrecy put a new rule in place in December that says nobody can look at electronic court...