Friday, January 10, 2014

Maine Legislature: Public hearing scheduled for Thursday, January 16, 2014, 1:00 PM, Judiciary Committee, State House, Room 438, on proposed Committee amendment to LD 1428, An Act to Protect Religious Freedom, which would provide a defense (allowing recovery of compensatory damages and attorney’s fees) to any claim brought under any state or local law (including the Maine Human Rights Act) that burdens a person’s exercise of religion or proposes to burden a person’s exercise of religion unless the person bringing the claim that burdens religion can prove the state law is “essential to further a compelling governmental interest” and is “the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest”
US District Court ME: Magistrate Judge recommends dismissal without prejudice of prisoner/in forma pauperis plaintiff’s equal protection selective prosecution claim (alleging probation officers charged prisoner with probation violation on the basis of race) because, under the rationale of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), prisoner/in forma pauperis plaintiff must obtain relief from the sentencing court before proceeding with his civil action

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