Legal Opinion
Theodore Littlefield v. Mark C. Caton, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 1, 1988No. 88-1260PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves a four-dimensional interface between (1) the legislative branch of Maine’s government, which over time enacted the series of statutes reproduced in the appendix; (2) the judicial branch, particularly the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), which declared certain of those statutes unconstitutional as applied; (3) the executive branch, in the persons of Maine’s governor, attorney general and the ranking administrators of the state’s penal system (including respondent Mark C. Catón, ap-pellee herein); and (4) petitioner-appellant Theodore Littlefield, an…
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