This Act may be known and cited as the Maine Human Rights Act.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 5, § 4551
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Known as the Maine Human Rights Act
The act spans §§ 4551–4555 (6 sections).
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Soileau v. Guilford of Maine, Inc. (1997)
Most recently applied in Brown v. Bank of America, N.A. (March 2014)
PL 1971, c. 501, §1 (NEW).
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Maine Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Maine statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.