FOREST ECOLOGY NETWORK v. LAND USE REG.

Docket No. BCD-11-210.

39 A.3d 74 (2012)

2012 ME 36

FOREST ECOLOGY NETWORK et al. v. LAND USE REGULATION COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 15, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Schneider , Attorney General, and Gerald D. Reid , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of Attorney General, Augusta, for appellant Land Use Regulation Commission.

Scott D. Anderson, Esq . (orally), and Jeffrey T. Selser, Esq. , Verrill Dana, LLP, Portland, for appellants Plum Creek Maine Timberlands, LLC, and Plum Creek Land Company.

Richard A. Spencer, Esq. , and David M. Kallin, Esq. , Drummond Woodsum , Portland, for appellant Forest Society of Maine.

Philip F.W. Ahrens, Esq. , and Nicholas D. Livesay, Esq. , Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, for appellant The Nature Conservancy.

Philip Worden, Esq . (orally), Worden Law Office, Northeast Harbor , and Lynne Williams, Esq. , Bar Harbor, for cross-appellants Forest Ecology Network and RESTORE: The North Woods.

Russell B. Pierce, Jr., Esq . (orally), David A. Goldman, Esq. , and Darya I. Haag, Esq. , Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, for cross-appellant Natural Resources Council of Maine.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] The Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC), and Plum Creek Maine Timberlands, LLC, and Plum Creek Land Company (collectively, Plum Creek) appeal from a judgment entered in the Business and Consumer Docket (Humphrey, C.J.) vacating LURC's approval of a rezoning petition and concept plan submitted by Plum Creek for land it owns in the Moosehead Lake region. LURC and Plum Creek contend that the court erred by concluding that LURC violated its...

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