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A divided Supreme Court has rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case.

This was the only one of Trump's criminal charges to reach and complete a trial, making him the first former or future U.S.

Maine began excluding faith-based private schools, leading to a Supreme Court case that struck down the exclusion as ...

In the court’s decision of 523 A2d 1381, it ruled that when an attorney notified the court that he believed Judge Benoit was in violation of the Code of Judicial Conduct, the court never gave Benoit ...

The state could be on a path to a widespread reform after a Superior Court justice ruled that many people facing serious ...

In a warning to communities along the MBTA system, the state's highest court has affirmed the Attorney General's authority to sue cities and towns to force them to ...

Nineteen states have imposed abortion bans or restrictions. Legal challenges and state protections continue post-Roe v. Wade.

BELGRADE — The state’s highest court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a much-loved Boy Scouts camp on Great Pond in ...

The schools want taxpayers to pay for private education even if that school violates the Maine Human Rights Act. As it stands ...

Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Catherine Connors is pushing back against a judicial ethics committee recommendation that she be disciplined for failing to recuse herself from two recent ...

When Molly Owens became a lawyer, she knew she wanted to represent those who needed her most. So about 10 years ago, she took the necessary training and joined a roster of private attorneys willing to ...