Constitutional Law No. 2019-0206 May 29, 2020 Vacated and remanded. Whether the “internal personal records” exemption under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know law, RSA 91-A:5, IV, should be a per se rule or whether it requires a balancing test The...
Constitutional Law No. 2019-0135 May 29, 2020 Vacated and remanded. Whether the Right-to-Know Law’s exemption for “internal personnel practices” and “personal files” as set forth within Fenniman is narrow enough to effectuate the purpose...
Constitutional Law No. 2019-0307 May 8, 2020 Affirmed. Whether due process allows a New Hampshire Court to maintain quasi in rem jurisdiction for an attachment of funds despite dismissal of underlying action for lack of personal jurisdiction The...
Constitutional Law No. 2019-0693 (U.S. District Court) May 20, 2020 Remanded. Certified questions of law from the U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire regarding the definition of domicile and resident as it relates to college students...
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW / TAKINGS No. 2019-0339 April 24, 2020 Affirmed Whether the trial court erred in finding RSA 80:89, VII unconstitutional to the extent it purports to extinguish a municipality’s duty to provide excess proceeds of a tax...
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW / RIGHTS OF ACCUSEDS No. 2018-0575 April 7, 2020 Affirmed and Remanded Whether the trial court erred in suppressing the first recorded statement made by defendant as the product of a custodial interrogation without...
Constitutional Law No. 2018-0651 Dec. 13, 2019 Katherine E. HedgesAn associate at Hage Hodes in Manchester practicing civil litigation and corporate law. Reversed in part; vacated in part; and remanded. Whether the trial court had subject...
Criminal Law/Constitutional Law An appeal from Carroll County No. 2018-0464 Nov. 22, 2019 Affirmed. Whether application of and conviction under RSA 649-A under the presented circumstances violated the defendant’s First Amendment of the United...
Criminal Law/Constitutional Law Appeal from Sullivan County, No. 2018-0292 Nov. 26, 2019 Affirmed. Whether the trial court erred in holding the evidence against defendant was sufficient to support the jury conviction that he operated his...
Suppression/Armed Career Criminal Statute No. 2018-0029 August 8, 2019 Affirmed in part; reversed in part; and remanded Whether the trial court erred by granting the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence of a firearm and a motion to...
Constitutional Law No. 2017-0116 February 8, 2019 Affirmed Whether a city ordinance that prohibits public nudity, including the showing of the female breast in a public place without a fully covered nipple, violates the defendants’ right to equal...
Constitutional Law No. 2017-0665 January 24, 2019 Affirmed. Whether there was legal error in allowing a person at trial to waive his right to counsel and represent himself. In 1998, petitioner Kenneth Hart was arrested and charged with two...
