OPINION OF JUSTICES

Docket No. OJ-15-2

123 A.3d 494 (2015)

2015 ME 107

OPINION OF THE JUSTICES of the Supreme Judicial Court given under the Provisions of Article VI, Section 3 of the Maine Constitution.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Answered August 6, 2015.

Questions Propounded by his Excellency, Paul R. LePage, Governor of the State of Maine in a Communication Dated July 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia Montgomery, Esq. , (orally), Hancock Fenton, Esq. , Holly Lusk, Esq. , and Avery Day, Esq. , Office of the Governor, Augusta, for Governor Paul R. LePage.

Timothy C. Woodcock, Esq. (orally), and Adria Y. LaRose, Esq. , Eaton Peabody, Bangor, for President of the Maine Senate Michael Thibodeau on behalf of the Maine Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives Mark Eves on behalf of the House of Representatives.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, Susan P. Herman , Dep. Atty. Gen., and Phyllis Gardiner , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for Attorney General Janet T. Mills.

L. Clinton Boothby, Esq. (orally), Boothby Perry, LLC, Turner, for Representatives Kenneth W. Fredette, Eleanor M. Espling, and Jeffrey L. Timberlake.

Zachary L. Heiden, Esq. , Alison Beyea, Esq. , and Oamshri Amarasingham, Esq. , ACLU of Maine Foundation, Portland, for American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation.

Melissa A. Hewey, Esq. , and David M. Kallin, Esq. , Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon, Portland, for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Maine Family Planning, Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center, Maine Primary Care Association, and Maine Nurse Practitioner Association.

Lise McLain of Gilead and Dorothy Lafortune of Biddeford.

Audrey Spence of Portland.


QUESTION PROPOUNDED BY THE GOVERNOR IN A COMMUNICATION DATED JULY 17, 2015

To the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court:

Please accept my request for an Opinion of the Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court pursuant to Article VI, Section 3 of the Maine Constitution. I seek your advice upon important questions of law regarding my constitutional obligation to faithfully execute the laws, specifically, 65 bills vetoed by me on July 16, 2015...

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