Municipal
Monaghan Leahy LLP, has extensive experience representing municipalities throughout Maine in a wide range of cases, from defending the issuance of building permits, to unconstitutional takings claims. The firm also represents landowners through the permitting process and handles appeals to state court from decisions of planning and zoning boards.
Among these types of services, Monaghan Leahy represents planning boards and land owners with respect to subdivision law, shoreland zoning, contract zoning, and site plan review. The firm also represents zoning boards and landowners with respect to variance appeals, nonconforming structures and uses, and appeals from local code enforcement officers. Monaghan Leahy, through its litigation department, also provides representation of municipalities and landowners regarding civil rights violations and unconstitutional takings claims.
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 On May 6, 2008, the Law Court upheld the Superior Court’s September 13, 2007 decision in Bean v. State Farm.
ML attorney Ken Pierce obtained a defense verdict on December 13, 2007 in a suit arising out of a June, 2005 automobile accident in Waterboro, Maine. |