Legal Opinion
Fitzgerald v. Baxter State Park Authority
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided April 6, 1978PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
The plaintiffs, all being Maine citizens and users of Baxter State Park, brought this suit in the Superior Court seeking to restrain the Baxter State Park Authority from carrying out a program for cleaning and restoring certain areas of timber blow-down that occurred in late November 1974. After extensive hearings, the Superior Court entered, on August 24, 1976, its injunction as follows:
“Defendants are prohibited from continuing to harvest blow-down in the manner in which the present operation is being conducted, to wit: with the use of heavy equipment. Further…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Frank v. Assessors of SkowheganSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
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3Cited by27 opinions
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