On May 31st Bruce Gagnon host of the program “This Issue” on Brunswick’s Cable TV Channel 3 interviewed me about the book. The 30 minute back and forth can be viewed over the next month at a dozen mid-coast community access channels or by clicking the following link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhlxW9ihL0&feature=youtu.be> Bruce’s questions focused on why and whether Maine’s intertidal land law should be reexamined. My responses pointed out that the 1986 and 1989 Bell cases (following a 1647 Massachusetts Colonial Ordinance) erroneously ceded title to all of Maine’s intertidal land to adjacent upland owners; I noted that the full range of court errors…
READ FULL ARTICLEOn May 30th I initiated a Change.org petition to the Maine Legislature titled “Maine’s Beaches Are Public Property”. The petition is linked to this website. I now want to link this website to the Change.org petition. The link to the petition is: https://chn.ge/2L3WS23 In the few days the petition has been up, close to 300 people have signed on as supporters; I’m hopeful this number will continue to grow as more books are distributed/sold and as the idea of reexamining the Bell cases takes hold in the public’s mind. To that end I have begun writing early supporters asking each of them…
READ FULL ARTICLEPortland Community Television, Channel 5, the Derry Rundlett show interviewed Professor Delogu about the book; the 30 minute program is informative and will appear multiple times through the end of May and into mid-June. Go to http://frontdoor.ctn5.org/CablecastPublicSite/show/12827?channel=1 to view the show directly.
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Orlando Delogu joined the University of Maine School of Law in 1966 and served as a full-time member of the faculty for 40 years and as emeritus professor of law for 11 years. He helped found the Maine Civil Liberties Union and seved on the Board of Environmental Protection, the Portland City Council, and the Portland Planning Board.