Category: Commercial Law

Norman, Hanson & DeTroy wishes to advise its corporate clients of a December 3, 2024 federal court decision – Texas Top Cop Shop – that issued an injunction prohibiting the U.S. Department of the Treasury, FinCEN Division, from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) on a nationwide basis.  The court decision enjoins the enforcement of...

Governor Janet Mills recently nominated Dan Cummings to the Board of Directors of the Finance Authority of Maine (FAME).  The Joint Committee on Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business and the Maine Senate both unanimously approved his nomination. Dan has nearly 35 years of experience in the lending industry representing credit unions throughout the state...

David Goldman chalked up another appellate win in Zappia v. Town of Old Orchard Beach.  The Law Court’s decision in Zappia promises to significantly shape the way in which local municipal land use officials are required to interpret zoning ordinances that restrict the way in which property owners make use of their own private property This...

Norman, Hanson & DeTroy is proud to announce Kelly Hoffman’s settlement of a landmark Title VII and Title IX Discrimination case brought by 5 of the 7 female head coaches at Colby College.  Federal and Maine equal pay laws mandate that employers may not discriminate between employees on the basis of their gender by paying...

The Law Court upended practitioners’ expectations regarding how local municipal land use officials are expected to act in the face of a property rights dispute between neighbors in its decision in Tomasino v. Town of Casco that a recent Maine Bar Journal article referred to as “arguably the most significant land use decision of 2020.”...