· 8/24/1971
Thut v. Grant
Citations
- 281 A.2d 1
- 1971 Me. LEXIS 241
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the Legislature may retroactively eliminate certain procedural requirements in paternity suits
- holding that putative father did not have a vested right in procedural rules previously applicable to paternity suits, even though application of those rules would have been “fatal to the attempted prosecution of complainant’s case”
- promulgation of new rules governing procedure in filiation action held applicable to cause of action accruing prior to effective date of revision
- promulgation of new rules governing procedure in filiation action held applicable to cause of action accruing prior to effective date of revision
- “It is irmly established that there is no vested right in any particular mode of procedure or remedy, and it is a general rule that, where a statute giving a particular remedy is unquali iedly repealed, the 87 remedy is gone.” (quotation marks omitted)
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Judges: Webber, Dufresne, Web-Ber, Weatherbee, Pomeroy, Wernick
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