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ATTORNEY GENERAL v. PINE TREE COUNCIL, INC.

Docket No. Ken-22-277.

2025 ME 2

ATTORNEY GENERAL et al., v. PINE TREE COUNCIL, INC., BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 7, 2025.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric J. Wycoff, Esq., and Kyle M. Noonan, Esq. (orally), Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, for appellants Pine Tree Council, Inc., Boy Scouts of America.

Russell B. Pierce, Jr., Esq. (orally), and Joseph M. Mavodones, Esq., Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, for cross-appellants Bomazeen Old Timers, Bruce F. Rueger, and Scott F. Adams.

Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General, and Christina M. Moylan, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Office of the Attorney General.

Panel: STANFILL, C.J., and HORTON, LAWRENCE, and DOUGLAS, JJ., and HUMPHREY, A.R.J.

[¶1] The dispute in this case centers on the meaning of a 1944 deed placing in a charitable trust a 330-acre parcel of land for its use by the Boy Scouts of America for camping. Pine Tree Council, Inc., Boy Scouts of America (Pine Tree) appeals from a summary judgment of the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Murphy, J.) entered...

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