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· 6/4/1973

Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. Environmental Improvement Commission

Citations

  • 307 A.2d 1
  • 3 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20616
  • 5 ERC (BNA) 1513
  • 1973 Me. LEXIS 309

How courts have described this case

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  • reinterpreting Ingram as allowing statutory procedure without jury trial only where “equitable in nature”
  • reinterpreting Ingram as allowing statutory procedure without jury trial only where \equitable in nature\
  • legal or equitable nature, and hence jury trial right, depends on relief sought
  • legal or equitable nature, and hence jury trial right, depends on relief sought
  • state statute imposing vicarious liability upon oil terminal operators for oil spills caused by independent carriers who were destined for the operators' terminals, but over whom the operators had no control, held to be valid exercise of police power
  • \[I]f . . . provisions of [an] Act are susceptible of a - 38 - reasonable interpretation which would satisfy constitutional requirements . . . we are bound to adopt that interpretation.\

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Judges: Dufresne, Web-Ber, Weatherbee, Pomeroy, Wernick, Archibald

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