Legal Opinion

In re Hughes

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided June 10, 1992PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ROBERTS, Justice.

Once again we review the decision of a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court ('Wathen, C.J.) to grant Polly A. Hughes’s petition for admission to the bar. The Board of Bar Examiners contends that certain findings of fact are unsupported by the record and that the single justice failed to apply the clear and convincing evidence standard required by our opinion on the Board’s first appeal, Application of Hughes, 594 A.2d 1098, 1101 (Me.1991) (Hughes I). We disagree, and accordingly affirm the decision of the single justice.

Although additional evidence was presented, the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Application of HughesSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1991

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. F. Lee Bailey v. Board of Bar ExaminersSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2014
  2. Board of Overseers of the Bar v. CampbellSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1995

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