Legal Opinion
Town of Madawaska v. Richard Cayer
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided November 4, 2014No. Docket Aro-14-51PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAlexander, J.
[¶ 1] Richard and Ann Cayer appeal from an order entered by the Superior Court (Aroostook County, Cuddy, J.) denying as untimely their special motion to dismiss filed pursuant to Maine’s anti- SLAPP 1 statute, 14 M.R.S. § 556 (2013). The pleading that the Cayers seek to dismiss is an amended land use citation and complaint, see M.R. Civ. P. 80K(b)(l)(A), filed against the Cayers by the Town of Madawaska for violations of a shoreland zoning ordinance. The Cayers maintain that the land use citation was a retaliatory effort by the Town to punish them for exercise of their right to petition local…
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