{"id":1029,"date":"2024-05-28T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/maine-high-court-vacates-dismissal-over-too-drastic-of-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:34:20","slug":"maine-high-court-vacates-dismissal-over-too-drastic-of-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/maine-high-court-vacates-dismissal-over-too-drastic-of-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine High Court Vacates Dismissal Over Too &#8216;Drastic&#8217; of Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Maine Supreme Judicial Court reinstated a suit seeking to recover personal property after it was dismissed for the plaintiffs nonappearance in district court,\u00a0concluding\u00a0that the sanction was too drastic given the misunderstandings about pandemic remote hearing orders in June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EqTigwKVBXVJ3WZ0qN9QnMUTzd-06OU4\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">May 23 opinion<\/a>, authored by Justice Wayne R. Douglas, the court concluded that while the district\u00a0court didn\u2019t err in dismissing the lawsuit over Tammy and James Rutledge\u2019s\u00a0nonappearance, as they believed they were to appear by telephone,\u00a0the dismissal was too drastic given the circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Supreme Judicial Court reinstated a suit seeking to recover personal property after it was dismissed for the plaintiffs nonappearance in district court,\u00a0concluding\u00a0that the sanction was too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143,575,1440,327,673,980,1390],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-court","tag-dismissal","tag-drastic","tag-high","tag-maine","tag-sanctions","tag-vacates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}