Title: Blum v. Friedman

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

Blum v. Friedman (2000-341); 172 Vt. 622; 782 A.2d 1204

[Filed 12-Sept-2001]

                                 ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 2000-341

                               JUNE TERM, 2001

Michael Blum    	               }	APPEALED FROM:
                                       }
                                       }
     v.	                               }	Bennington Superior Court
                                       }	
Theodore H. Friedman, Robert G. Oakes, }
Frank R. Pinto, Town of Winhall        }
Selectboard and Town of Winhall        }	DOCKET NO. 78-3-00 Bncv
	
                                                Trial Judge:  Richard W. Norton

             In the above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:

       Plaintiff Michael Blum appeals from the Bennington Superior Court's
  grant of the V.R.C.P.  12(b)(6) motion to dismiss of defendants Theodore
  Friedman, Robert Oakes, Frank Pinto, the Town  of Winhall Selectboard and
  the Town of Winhall (collectively Town).  Plaintiff claims the trial court 
  erred in (1) applying an incorrect standard in dismissing his complaint
  (FN1), (2) applying the  exception within 1 V.S.A. §313(a)(1), (3)
  dismissing his First Amendment claim, and (4) dismissing  his access to
  public documents and breach of contract claims.  We reverse and remand.

       When reviewing judgments of dismissal under V.R.C.P. 12(b)(6) we
  accept all allegations  pleaded in the complaint, as well as reasonable
  inferences from the complaint, to be true, and treat all  contrary
  allegations of the moving party as false.  Amiot v. Ames, 166 Vt. 288, 291,