MacIMAGE OF MAINE v. ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY

Docket: Cum-11-127

40 A.3d 975 (2012)

2012 ME 44

MacIMAGE OF MAINE, LLC, et al. v. ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan M. Dench, Esq. , and Michael S. Malloy, Esq. , Skelton, Taintor & Abbott, Auburn, for appellant Androscoggin County.

Peter T. Marchesi, Esq. (orally), and Cassandra S. Shaffer, Esq. , Wheeler & Arey, P.A., Waterville, for appellants Aroostook County and Knox County.

Brendan P. Rielly, Esq. , and Patricia M. Dunn, Esq. , Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry, Portland, for appellant Cumberland County.

Edward W. Gould, Esq. , and Joseph M. Bethony, Esq. , Gross, Minsky, & Mogul, P.A., Bangor, for appellant Penobscot County.

Gene R. Libby, Esq. , and Hillary J. Massey, Esq. , Libby O'Brien Kingsley & Champion, LLC, Kennebunk, for appellant York County.

Sigmund D. Schutz, Esq. (orally), Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, Portland, for cross-appellant MacImage of Maine, LLC.

John P. Simpson (orally), cross-appellant pro se.

Frank M. Underkuffler, Esq. (orally), Farmington, for amici curiae Franklin County and Sagadahoc County.

Kelly W. McDonald, Esq. (orally), and Chelsea E. Callanan, Esq. , Murray, Plumb & Murray, Portland, and Zachary Heiden , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maine, Portland, on the briefs, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maine.

Patrick Strawbridge, Esq. (orally), Bingham McCutchen LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for amicus curiae Maine Freedom of Information Coalition.

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


SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] In this appeal, we are presented with a question of first impression regarding the bulk copying of county registry documents. Specifically, MacImage of Maine, LLC, and its principal, John P. Simpson, have asked the six Maine counties involved in this appeal to provide to them, in a specified digital format, copies of every document contained in the counties' registries of deeds, including the indexes to the recorded documents. The recorded...

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