AVANGRID NETWORKS v. SECRETARY OF STATE

Docket: Cum-20-181.

237 A.3d 882 (2020)

2020 ME 109

AVANGRID NETWORKS, INC., et al. v. SECRETARY OF STATE et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: August 13, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Aromando, Esq. (orally), Jared S. des Rosiers, Esq. , Joshua D. Dunlap, Esq. , and Sara A. Murphy, Esq. , Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, for appellant Avangrid Networks, Inc.

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

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.

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

David M. Kallin, Esq. , Adam R. Cote, Esq. , and Elizabeth C. Mooney, Esq. , Drummond Woodsum, Portland, and Paul W. Hughes, Esq. (orally), and Andrew Lyons-Berg, Esq. , McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Washington, D.C., for cross-appellants Mainers for Local Power and nine Maine voters.

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

Timothy C. Woodcock , Eaton Peabody, Bangor, for amici curiae Mark N. Dion and Kenneth C. Fletcher.

James L. Costello, Esq. , and Rebecca Gray Klotzle, Esq. , Curtis Thaxter LLC, Portland, for amici curiae former commissioners of the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

Dmitry Bam, amicus curiae pro se.

Orlando E. Delogu, amicus curiae pro se.

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


[¶1] Avangrid Networks, Inc., the company that owns Central Maine Power Company (CMP) as a subsidiary, and intervenors Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Industrial Energy Consumer Group (IECG) appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Warren, J.) dismissing their complaints for a declaratory judgment and...

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