BAR HARBOR—On Thursday, May 2, the town and six of its individual councilors filed a motion to dismiss the district court case against it by Charles Sidman and also filed in opposition to Sidman’s motion for “trial of the facts.”
Good afternoon Annlinn! Mr. Sidman, in his role as defendant-intervenor in the case alongside the town, filed a motion to dismiss the case brought forth by APPLL on March 14th of last year.
Apologies, I misread the username and thought you were someone else!
No, as far as I can tell, there's no record of the attorneys for the Town Council filing an additional motion to dismiss. That said, I'm also not sure there would have been any reason to file duplicate motions to dismiss if Mr. Sidman had also filed on behalf of the joint effort. As I was not yet on Council at that time, I'm also not familiar with the legal strategy or discussion around who would ultimately submit the motion to dismiss, so apologies for not having more information beyond what I shared above.
I can't recall. Did the Bar Harbor Town Council file motions to dismiss APPL's case?
Good afternoon Annlinn! Mr. Sidman, in his role as defendant-intervenor in the case alongside the town, filed a motion to dismiss the case brought forth by APPLL on March 14th of last year.
I cannot find an exact link to the document on our Document Center, but there's a previous Bar Harbor Story article that contains screenshots of the document. Link is available here: https://barharborstory.com/2023/03/17/sidman-files-motion-to-dismiss-cruise-ship-cap-lawsuit/
Not sure who you are addressing here.
The question stands. Did the Bar Harbor Town Council ever file a motion to dismiss the APPL case?
Apologies, I misread the username and thought you were someone else!
No, as far as I can tell, there's no record of the attorneys for the Town Council filing an additional motion to dismiss. That said, I'm also not sure there would have been any reason to file duplicate motions to dismiss if Mr. Sidman had also filed on behalf of the joint effort. As I was not yet on Council at that time, I'm also not familiar with the legal strategy or discussion around who would ultimately submit the motion to dismiss, so apologies for not having more information beyond what I shared above.