Legal Opinion
Bates v. Department of Behavioral & Developmental Services
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 17, 2004PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAlexander, J.
[¶ 1] This matter is before the Court on the State’s appeal of a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Mills, C.J.) that (1) determined that the State was not in substantial compliance with a 1990 consent decree and incorporated settlement agreement; (2) found that the State had acted in bad faith in filing its notice of substantial compliance and in pursuing its efforts to achieve substantial compliance with the provisions of the settlement agreement; (3) held the State in contempt for its failure to have complied with the terms of the consent decree and settlement…
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