Category: Newsworthy

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...

Russell Pierce brought to a successful close complex litigation involving novel defamation and anti-SLAPP statutory claims in Franchini v. Investor’s Business Daily. The First Circuit’s judgment and mandate in favor of Investor’s Business Daily, LLC (now an indirect subsidiary of News Corporation), became final on November 14, 2024, after many years of battle and perseverance...

Norman, Hanson & DeTroy is pleased to announce that Lucy Weaver has joined the firm as an Associate in the Corporate and Commercial Group. Lucy graduated cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law in 2024 and from Colby College in 2019, where she studied history and Russian and was a member of...

We are proud to announce that Brad Pattershall has been unanimously elected as a Member (Partner) of Norman, Hanson & DeTroy. Brad joined NHD in 2022 after working as partner at another Portland law firm and then establishing and growing a solo practice in Brunswick, Maine.  Brad has a broad-based litigation practice in which he...

Norman, Hanson & DeTroy is pleased to announce that Wesley Birdsong has joined the firm’s Corporate and Commercial Group. Wesley graduated from the University of Maine School of Law in 2023. While in law school, Wesley served as the Executive Editor of the Ocean & Coastal Law Journal, recognized as the 1L Prize Arguer, received...

Devin Deane’s clients were recently granted asylum by the United States Department of Homeland Security after years of prosecuting their application for asylum.  Devin’s pro bono efforts culminated in a hearing before the Boston Asylum Office in October 2024.   Devin’s clients, a mother and two children, fled to the United States from their home...

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In the arena of family law, the venerable notion of the “finality of judgments” buckles under the common sense need for family orders involving children to evolve as the children age and develop.  Hence, a parent can modify a family order involving a  minor child, but only if they can prove there has been a...

Reports of “Nuclear Verdicts” have been greatly exaggerated by the media.  In Weeks v. True, Sam Johnson recently obtained a defense verdict in Penobscot County Superior Court after the jury deliberated for a total of 19 minutes.  The case involved an auto accident in which liability was not contested, but the causal connection between the...

Netflix has a show called “The Three-Body Problem.”  Aaron Baltes recently prevailed in a case that could be called “The Three-Parent Problem.”  In 2015, the Maine Parentage Act modernized the statutes governing parentage, providing for several different methods for establishing legal parentage beyond a genetic link to the child.  The Act proved critical in establishing...

Matt Mehalic and Sam Johnson presented a seminar addressing common third-party liability coverage issues under a Businessowners policy and also provided helpful hints for 30(b)(6) depositions of insurance professionals at the Concord Group Insurance Companies on August 1, 2024.  The presentation gave Matt and Sam an opportunity to offer insights into application of insurance provisions...

David Goldman scored another appellate victory in Vargas v. Riverbend Management.  In its decision, the Law Court affirmed the defense verdict secured by Devin Deane in the Superior Court. In Vargas, the Law Court took the opportunity to clarify the circumstances under which an employer can be held vicariously liable for the discriminatory actions of...