Lovell v. One Bancorp’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions

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1. “1. Does (1) the Certificate of Conversion issued by the Maine Superintendent of Banking on June 7, 1984, or (2) the time limits for obtaining judicial review of final agency action under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, 5 M.R.S.A. § 11002, or (3) both in combination, bar Plaintiffs’ claims for relief asserted under Maine common law and under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, the Maine Banking Code (9-B M.R.S.A. §§ 343, 344) and the Maine Corporation Code (13-A M.R.S.A. § 608(l)(a)? 2. Does Maine law grant to depositors in a mutual savings association a right to vote by mail or proxy on the association’s conversion to stock ownership? 3. Under Maine law, do depositors of a mutual savings bank have the enforceable right to a distribution of the surplus of any bank when it converts to stock form pursuant to 9-B M.R.S.A. § 344, in the absence of a charter provision providing any more than that set forth in Chapter 328, P. & S.L. of 1859 (the charter of Maine Savings Bank’s predecessor, the Portland Five Cent Savings Institution)?”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovell v. One Bancorp · Lovell v. Peoples Heritage Savings Bank

2. “1. Plaintiffs’ claims for relief asserted under Maine common law are barred by the certificate of conversion issued by the Superintendent of Banking on June 7, 1984 and the time limits for obtaining Judicial review of final agency action, 5 M.R.S.A. § 11002. We decline to answer question 1 as it relates to plaintiffs’ claims asserted under Maine statutory law. 2. We decline to answer question 2. 3. In the absence of a charter provision providing any more than that set forth in chapter 328 of P. & S.L. of 1859, depositors in a mutual savings bank do not have the enforceable right to a distribution of the surplus of any bank when it converts to stock form pursuant to 9-B M.R.S.A. § 344. 5”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Lovell v. One Bancorp · Lovell v. Peoples Heritage Savings Bank

3. “When it shall appear to the Supreme Court of the United States, or to any court of appeals or district court of the United States, that there are involved in any proceeding before it one or more questions of law of this State, which may be determinative of the cause, and there are no clear controlling precedents in the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, such federal court may certify any such questions of law of this State to the Supreme Judicial Court for instructions concerning such questions of state law, which certificate the Supreme Judicial Court sitting as a law court may, by written opinion, answer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Nuccio v. Nuccio