REED v. SECRETARY OF STATE

Docket: BCD-20-126.

232 A.3d 202 (2020)

2020 ME 57

Delbert A. REED v. SECRETARY OF STATE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: May 7, 2020.

Revised: June 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua A. Tardy, Esq. , and Joshua A. Randlett, Esq. , Rudman Winchell, Bangor; and Jared S. des Rosiers, Esq. , Nolan L. Reichl, Esq. (orally), Joshua D. Dunlap, Esq. , and Newell A. Augur, Esq. , Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, for appellant Delbert A. Reed.

Sigmund D. Schutz, Esq. , Anthony W. Buxton, Esq. , and Robert B. Borowski, Esq. , Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP, Portland, for appellant Industrial Energy Consumer Group.

Gerald F. Petruccelli, Esq. , and Nicole R. Bissonnette, Esq. , Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow, Portland, for appellant Maine State Chamber of Commerce.

Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General, and Phyllis Gardiner , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Secretary of State.

David M. Kallin, Esq. (orally), Amy K. Olfene, Esq. , and Adam R. Cote, Esq. , Drummond Woodsum, Portland, for appellee Mainers for Local Power.

Christopher T. Roach, Esq. , Roach Ruprecht Sanchez & Bischoff, P.C., Portland, for appellee NextEra Energy Resources, LLC.

Patrick Strawbridge, Esq. , Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Boston, Massachusetts, for amici curiae Garrett Mason and Kevin Battle.

Panel: GORMAN, JABAR, HUMPHREY, and HORTON, JJ., and HJELM, A.R.J.


[¶1] In this proceeding for review of governmental action, see M.R. Civ. P. 80C, Delbert A. Reed appeals from a decision of the Business and Consumer Docket (Murphy, J.) affirming a decision of the Secretary of State that validated a direct initiative petition regarding the New England Clean Energy Connect Transmission Project...

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