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  "title": "Maine Supreme Judicial Court Public Accountability Record",
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    "Yor-26-46",
    "YORDC-FM-2010-00190",
    "BIDDC-PA-2024-01285"
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    "days_since_may_12_order": 98,
    "days_since_june_23_order": 56,
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      "date": "2026-05-12",
      "title": "Order on Motion to Permit Trial Court Action",
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      "title": "Order on Pending Motions",
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      "date": "2026-05-12",
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    {
      "date": "2026-06-23",
      "type": "official-order",
      "label": "Law Court authorizes future filings to be docketed without presentment for consideration",
      "source": "Signed Law Court order"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-03",
      "type": "documented-event",
      "label": "Medical-office implementation incident and later filing-rejection sequence described in the open letter",
      "source": "Author account; underlying records control"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-17",
      "type": "public-accountability",
      "label": "Public, non-ex parte open letter distributed and published",
      "source": "Open letter and distribution statement"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-18",
      "time": "00:54 ET",
      "type": "filed-complaint-routing-request",
      "label": "Board intake, preservation, and Rule 10(c) referral request transmitted",
      "source": "Confidential filed packet and public-safe sent-message proof",
      "status": "Filed request; no adjudicated finding or referral decision represented"
    }
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  "limitations": [
    "A filing or public letter proves that a position was asserted; it does not convert disputed allegations into judicial findings.",
    "The signed orders and native source records control over summaries and accessibility transcripts.",
    "The confidential 30-page Board intake packet is excluded from the website archive; only a public-safe derivative and redacted transmission proof are published.",
    "A complaint, intake, or referral request does not establish jurisdictional acceptance, investigation, or misconduct."
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  "oversight_referral": {
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    "time": "00:54 ET",
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    "confidential_source_in_public_archive": false,
    "jurisdictional_posture": "The filing acknowledges Maine Bar Rule 10(c) and requests written disposition, preservation, and transmission or coordination with the Committee on Judicial Conduct rather than direct Board discipline of an incumbent justice.",
    "requested_actions": [
      "Written Rule 10(c) jurisdictional disposition",
      "Preservation for possible Rule 10(b) relevance",
      "Transmission or formal referral to the Committee on Judicial Conduct or exact routing instructions",
      "Preservation of the identified appellate and trial-court record",
      "Examination by the proper authority of the basis for frivolous/wasteful labels and nonpresentment",
      "Written report of jurisdiction, preservation, transmission/referral, and coordination status"
    ],
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    "limitations": [
      "A filed complaint or referral request is not an adjudicated finding.",
      "The public site does not publish the confidential source packet.",
      "The filing acknowledges that the June 23 order signed For the Court may reflect a collective decision and does not claim Justice Lawrence acted alone."
    ]
  }
}