ALMEDER v. TOWN OF KENNEBUNKPORT

Docket: Yor-18-251.

217 A.3d 1111 (2019)

2019 ME 151

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

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: October 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Gordon R. Smith, Esq. (orally), and Keith E. Glidden, Esq. , Verrill Dana, LLP, Portland, and Christopher E. Pazar, Esq. , Drummond & Drummond, Portland, for appellants Terrence O'Connor and Joan Leahey

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

Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General, and Lauren E. Parker , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee State of Maine

Gerald F. Petruccelli, Esq. , Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow, LLP, Portland, for appellee neighboring landowners

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

Sandra L. Guay, Esq. , Woodman Edmands Danylik Austin Smith & Jacques, P.A., Biddeford, for amicus curiae North American Kelp

David A. Soley, Esq. , Glenn Israel, Esq. , and James G. Monteleone, Esq. , Bernstein Shur, Portland, for amici curiae Susan D. Howe and John D. Howe

Orlando E. Delogu, amicus curiae pro se

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


[¶1] Goose Rocks Beach is a coastal section of Kennebunkport stretching approximately two miles along the Atlantic Ocean and consisting of the beach1 and upland areas. Robert F. Almeder and twenty-two other owners of property in this area2 appeal from a judgment entered...

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