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SOMERSET COUNTY v. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

Docket No. Som-14-101.

133 A.3d 1006 (2016)

2016 ME 33

SOMERSET COUNTY v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: February 18, 2016.

Corrected: March 1, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Andrew L. Black , Asst. Atty. General (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellant State Board of Corrections.

Michael Hodgins, Esq. (orally), and N. Joel Moser, Esq. , Bernstein Shur, Augusta, for appellee Somerset County.

Michael Hodgins, Esq. , and Meredith C. Eilers, Esq. , Bernstein Shur, Augusta, for movant and appellee Somerset County.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Diane Sleek , Asst. Atty. General, Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for respondent and substituted appellant Department of Corrections.

Dissent: MEAD, J.

[¶ 1] This case calls for us to construe legislation that bears on a financial dispute between Somerset County and the former State of Maine Board of Corrections. The County receives income generated by boarding federal prisoners at the Somerset County Jail (SCJ), and that income is used to support the jail budget. When the County...

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