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MFBH v. DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES

Docket No. Cum-15-200.

136 A.3d 714 (2016)

2016 ME 57

MAINERS FOR FAIR BEAR HUNTING et al. v. DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: April 14, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rachel M. Wertheimer, Esq. (orally), Verrill Dana LLP, Portland, for appellants Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting and Katie Hansberry.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, Emily K. Green , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Scott W. Boak , Asst. Atty. Gen., and Mark A. Randlett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Paul McDonald, Esq. (orally), and Daniel J. Murphy, Esq. , Bernstein Shur, Portland, for amicus curiae Maine Wildlife Conservation Council.

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

[¶ 1] In September 2014, Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting and Katie Hansberry filed a complaint in the Superior Court contending that the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's campaign activities in opposition to a question scheduled to appear on the 2014 referendum election ballot constituted an ultra vires expenditure of...

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