HATFIELD v. COM'R OF INLAND FISHERIES


566 A.2d 737 (1989)

Daniel and Jarlene HATFIELD, et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE and Commissioner of Public Safety, et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided November 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. O'Meara (orally), Murray, Plumb & Murray, Robert E. Mittel, M.C. L.U., Portland, for plaintiffs.

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Cabanne Howard (orally), Deputy Atty. Gen., Augusta, for defendant.

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


COLLINS, Justice.

A plaintiff class composed of people who canoe upon the Saco River brought a class action before the Superior Court of Kennebec County (Alexander, J.) challenging the constitutionality of a "riverblock" operation that was conducted jointly by the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on the banks of the Saco River on three weekend days in mid-1988. The officers at the riverblock operation stopped and...

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