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Good to know! And obviously correct. The decision is from Maine Superior Court Judge Harold Stewart, II (Cumberland County), in John B. Pride, Inc. v. Kinch, 2020 WL 7223004 (handed down in September but just posted to Westlaw).

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.