Legal Opinion
Nadeau v. State
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 1, 1978PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DELAHANTY, Justice.
Pursuant to a Private Resolve, 1969 Me. Acts, ch. 32, 1 Louis Nadeau (Nadeau), the plaintiff, instituted suit against the State of Maine before a three-justice panel of the Superior Court. Finding that Nadeau’s complaint did not state a cause of action, the panel converted the State’s motion to dismiss pursuant to M.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) into an order granting summary judgment to the State. We conclude that the panel erred in granting summary judgment but that such error was essentially harmless because it should have granted the State’s motion to dismiss.
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