Legal Opinion
Sherburne v. Medical Malpractice Prelitigation Screening Panel
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided March 8, 1996PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Justice.
Cecilia Sherburne appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Alexander, J.) dismissing her plenary action challenging the action of a Medical Malpractice Prelitigation Screening Panel. Because we conclude that a screening panel convened pursuant to section 2852 of the Maine Health Security Act, 24 M.R.S.A §§ 2501 — 2985 (1990 & Pamph.1995), is neither an administrative agency nor an inferior tribunal, we affirm the judgment. We do not decide any substantive evidentiary issue but rule only on the procedural propriety of Sherburne’s plenary effort to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Curtis v. CornishSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1912
- Norton v. EmerySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1911
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