MacImage of Me., LLC v. Androscoggin County
Annotate this CaseMacImage of Maine and its principal asked six Maine counties to provide to them, in a specified digital format, copies of every document contained in the counties' registries of deeds, including the indexes to the recorded documents. The counties agreed to provide electronic copies of the registries' recorded documents, but disputes over the fees that the counties could charge for the requested electronic information precipitated this litigation. The superior court determined that the counties could not charge the fees that they proposed in their responses to the requests. The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the superior court, which entered its judgment before recent legislation was passed. The Court held that the recent legislation was applicable to the dispute and that the responses of all but two of the six counties agreeing to provide the requested records in bulk and setting the costs for transferring the data fell within the law's parameters for reasonable fees. Remanded for entry of judgment in favor of those four counties and for further proceedings regarding the remaining two counties.
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