TOWN OF WELLS v. TOWN OF OGUNQUIT


775 A.2d 1174 (2001)

2001 ME 122

TOWN OF WELLS v. TOWN OF OGUNQUIT et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Durward W. Parkinson (orally), Susan Bernstein Driscoll, Bergen & Parkinson, L.L.C., Kennebunk, for plaintiff.

Sidney St. F. Thaxter, Charles J. Micoleau (orally), Justin D. LeBlanc, Curtis Thaxter Stevens Broder & Micoleau, L.L.C., Portland, for defendant Town of Ogunquit.

G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, Sarah A. Forster, Asst. Attorney General (orally), William H. Laubenstein III, Asst. Attorney General, Augusta, for defendant State of Maine.

Deirdre M. Smith (orally), Richard A. Spencer, Durmmond Woodsum & MacMahon, Portland, for intervenor Wells-Ogunquit Community School District.

Panel: WATHEN, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, SAUFLEY, ALEXANDER, and CALKINS, JJ.


CALKINS, J.

[¶ 1] The Town of Wells appeals from the summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (York County, Fritzsche, J.) declaring that a private law which revises the funding formula for the Wells-Ogunquit Community School District, P. & S.L. 1999, ch. 83, does not violate the unfunded mandate provision of the Maine Constitution, ME. CONST. art. IX, § 21. The Town of Ogunquit cross-appeals arguing that Wells lacks standing and that the...

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