State v. Placzek

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding it \is not an efficient use of total court resources to report the case to the Law Court merely on the chance that its decision may turn out to be the one that finally disposes of the case\
• report improvident if taken on a question that “has been decided or could readily be answered by study of the existing law”
• “If assumption of such a role appeared undesirable to our predecessors in 1906, the multiplied and multiplying caseload of the 1977 Law Court makes it entirely impossible.”
• lower court’s certification, even with agreement of both the State and the defendant, that question of law on report is “of sufficient importance or doubt,” not conclusive on Law Court
• a lower court’s report agreed to by the State is not binding on this Court
• “The corporation obviously acts, and can act, only by and through its human agents... .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).