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MIDCOAST DISPOSAL, INC. v. TOWN OF UNION

537 A.2d 1149 (1988)

MIDCOAST DISPOSAL, INC. v. TOWN OF UNION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided February 23, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edith A. Richardson (orally), Rudman & Winchell, Bangor, for plaintiff.

James W. Strong (orally), Strout, Payson, Pellicani, Hokkanen, Strong, & Levine, Rockland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and CLIFFORD, JJ.

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant Town of Union appeals a judgment entered by the Superior Court (Knox County) declaring that the Town had exceeded its home rule authority by enacting ordinances that prohibited private companies such as plaintiff Midcoast Disposal, Inc. (Midcoast) from locating and operating within Union disposal facilities that would receive out-of-town solid waste. The court held that by enacting the Maine Hazardous Waste, Septage and Solid Waste...

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