From admiralty to antitrust, banking to bankruptcy, commercial to constitutional, energy to environmental, tax to trademark, our lawyers have argued successfully at the appellate level in a wide variety of practice areas and industries. Representative recent matters include:
- Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mass., Inc., 132 F.4th 86 (1st Cir. 2025) (representing insurer in appeal affirming district court finding that ERISA preempted state law claims)
- NECEC Transmission LLC v. Bureau of Parks and Lands, 2022 ME 48 (representing developer in appeal relating to a vested rights challenge to the retroactive application of a law affecting construction of a utility corridor)
- Penobscot Nation v. Frey, 3 F.4th 484 (1st Cir. 2021) (representing a coalition of municipalities and other river users in an en banc proceeding before the First Circuit regarding the Penobscot Nation’s reservation boundaries)
- Avangrid Networks, Inc. v. Dunlap, 2020 ME 109 (representing Maine’s largest utility in challenging the use of the direct initiative process to revoke a permit for a $1 billion power line)
- Payne v. Dunlap, 2020 ME 110 (representing Maine voters in defending the exercise of a people’s veto under the Maine Constitution)
- Penobscot Nation v. Mills, 861 F.3d 324 (1st Cir. 2017) (representing coalition of municipalities and other river users defending against an action brought by the Penobscot Nation asserting that its reservation boundaries extended into the Penobscot River in Maine)
- Carnicella v. Mercy Hospital, 2017 ME 161 (representing hospital defending against discrimination claim)
- Opinion of the Justices, 2017 ME 100 (representing Republican Caucus of the Maine House of Representatives in striking down ranked choice voting as unconstitutional)
- Valente v. T.D. Bank, N.A, 92 Mass.App.Ct. 141 (2017) (representing bank defending against claim of negligence in claim governed by UCC § 4-406(f))
- Arundel Valley, LLC v. Branch River Plastics, Inc., 2016 ME 175 (representing a manufacturer and distributor of insulated roofing panels in complex construction dispute)
- Merrimon v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am., 758 F.3d 46 (1st Cir. 2014), and Vander Luitgaren v. Sun Life Assur. Co. of Canada, 765 F.3d 59 (1st Cir. 2014) (representing life insurance companies in ERISA litigation regarding the use of retained asset accounts to pay death benefits)
- America v. Sunspray Condominium Ass’n, 2013 ME 19 (representing condominium association against claims for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and negligence)