Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy ruled the state of Maine was at fault for unconstitutionally leaving poor defendants ...

A court has denied the state of Maine’s request to halt habeas hearings for people who cannot afford a lawyer and were not ...

Criticism of "activist" judges predates the term and has come from both ends of the political spectrum. Democratic and ...

Attorneys for the state asked for the decision to be paused while they appeal to the Maine Supreme Court, but that request ...

The arguments focused on whether federal district court judges can rule against the administration on a nationwide basis.

Butterfield was one of four man accused in the shooting that killed Derald Coffin and injured Annabelle Hartnett in Portland.

A Republican state lawmaker from Maine appealed to the Supreme Court after she was censured by the state House for a social media post about a transgender athlete, a move that comes amid sparring over ...

KITTERY, Maine — A State Road resident is taking Kittery to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court over an approved plan to redevelop La Casita restaurant into a retail cannabis shop on the town ...

One well-known Maine Supreme Judicial Court case, Doe v. Regional School Unit 26, ruled in 2014 that schools could not deny transgender students access to bathrooms that aligned with their gender ...

According to police, Derald Coffin was shot and killed by a group of people as he sat in a parked car in Portland in 2022.

The Kennebec County Superior Court has ruled it will proceed with hearings to consider releasing people who cannot afford a ...