Opinion ID: 2296970
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: request for remand by superior court

Text: After judgment below and after the filing of notice of appeal, Select filed a motion with the Justice below indicating its readiness to satisfy the judgment against it with all attendant costs and praying that it be relieved from paying any future costs and legal expenses. As noted, Select filed no appeal from the judgment against it. Select's motion was filed pursuant to Rule 60(b) (6). In a careful opinion the Justice below concluded that procedure which has found favor in the Federal judicial system in like circumstances would be appropriate here. He indicated his intention to grant Select's motion and filed with the Law Court a request that the case be remanded to the Superior Court for that purpose. The procedure followed would appear to be appropriate once the Law Court has acquired jurisdiction, save only that the motion for remand should be made by the moving party. See Greear v. Greear (9 Cir. 1961) 288 F.2d 466. In the instant case it suffices to say that the Justice below had not on the mere filing of notice of appeal lost jurisdiction to decide the post-judgment motions and no remand at this stage was necessary. If action on such motions produces multiple appeals, they can be readily consolidated. It is accordingly ordered that plaintiffs' motion be dismissed as improvidently filed, and that the request lodged by the Superior Court also be dismissed.