ALMEDER v. TOWN OF KENNEBUNKPORT

Docket No. Yor-12-599.

106 A.3d 1099 (2014)

2014 ME 139

Robert F. ALMEDER et al. v. TOWN OF KENNEBUNKPORT et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: February 4, 2014.

Reargued: April 9, 2014.

Reissued: December 9, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney St. F. Thaxter, Esq. , (orally), David P. Silk, Esq. , and Benjamin M. Leoni, Esq. , Curtis Thaxter, LLC, Portland, for appellants Robert Almeder et al.

Christopher E. Pazar, Esq. , Drummond & Dummond, Portland, for appellants Janice M. Fleming, Terrence G. O'Connor, and Joan M. Leahy.

Amy K. Tchao, Esq. , (orally), Melissa A. Hewey, Esq. , Brian D. Willing, Esq. , and David M. Kallin, Esq. , Dummond Woodsum , Portland, for appellee Town of Kennebunkport.

André G. Duchette, Esq. , (orally), and Gregg R. Frame, Esq. , Taylor, McCormack & Frame, LLC, Portland, for appellees "TMF Defendants."

Richard J. Driver, Margarete M.K. Driver, Alexander M. Lachiatto, and Judith A. Lachiatto, pro se appellees.

Adam Steinman, Esq. , Cape Elizabeth , for appellee Surfrider Foundation.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Paul Stern , Dep. Atty. Gen., (orally), Office of Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee State of Maine.

John A. Cunningham, Esq. , and Noreen A. Patient, Esq. , Eaton Peabody, Brunswick, for amicus curiae Maine Forest Products Council.

Brian P. Winchester, Esq. , Augusta, for amicus curiae Maine Snowmobile Association.

Ivy L. Frignoca, Esq. , Portland, for amicus curiae Conservation Law Foundation.

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


[¶ 1] Robert F. Almeder and twenty-eight other owners of property fronting Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport (the Beachfront Owners) appeal from a decision of the Superior Court (York County, Brennan, J.) awarding the public a recreational easement over both the intertidal and dry sand portions of the Beach. The Beachfront...

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