The court affirmed the agency’s findings that psychologist Seider violated professional confidentiality and other ethical duties in her handling of a family’s cases, disclosures, custody litigation, and reports to child-protection authorities.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 2000
Published opinions from 2000. The case name opens the case page.
2000 opinions
The court held that Maine’s Grandparents Visitation Act could be applied consistently with the Fourteenth Amendment on these facts, where the grandparents had acted as parents to the children for significant periods.
The court affirmed dismissal of all five groups of employees’ claims, holding that employees could not privately recover statutory forfeitures and that wages paid by the next regularly scheduled payday were not “unpaid” wages recoverable in a private action.
The court affirmed summary judgment on Klemens Burdzel’s claim for tortious interference with an expectancy because the properly supported summary-judgment record did not establish a prima facie case of tortious conduct by Emily or Raymond.
The court affirmed dismissal of Maheux's appeal from a forcible entry and detainer judgment because her appeal was filed after the statutory appeal period had expired. The court held that a Rule 60(b) motion and stay of the writ did not affect the judgment's finality or suspend the time for appeal.