Player of Gray, ME No I disagree. This was not politically motivated. Husson was given lots of chances to demonstrate what it needed to satisfy the Court. It had a blue ribbon committee which worked on this matter since 2006 which issued a report and a number of the members expressed concern about many areas of inadequacy. You can read the opinion at
http://www.courts.state.me.us/court_info/opinions/2008%20documents/SJC-242HussonOrder.pdf

Husson could have started all of this without approval from the Court on the issue of Maine Bar admission requirements. That's what other law schools like Mass School of Law have done.report abuse

Player of Gray, ME No I disagree. This was not politically motivated. Husson was given lots of chances to demonstrate what it needed to satisfy the Court. It had a blue ribbon committee which worked on this matter since 2006 which issued a report and a number of the members expressed concern about many areas of inadequacy. You can read the opinion at
http://www.courts.state.me.us/court_info/opinions/2008%20documents/SJC-242HussonOrder.pdf

Husson could have started all of this without approval from the Court on the issue of Maine Bar admission requirements. That's what other law schools like Mass School of Law have done.report abuse

Esquire of Hallowell, ME Keke is speaking a lot of truth. Husson's appeal to the supreme court has been a very politically sided debate. It is also difficult to show that you will have a law library, adequate professors, and an appropriate corriculum, when you can't begin building or hiring professors until you get the nod to move forward. Husson is expanding in leaps and bounds, and has already proven itself with offering excellence in its Doctoral Physical Therapy degrees, Pharmacology program, and Nursing programs. Not to mention the degrees offered in Business and Education. I have no doubt that they would operate a first class Law School. Perhaps better than USM. Unfortunately we will never know. It is my understanding that Husson will most likely abandon the persuit of a Law School, and look at other areas to grow.report abuse

Esquire of Hallowell, ME Keke is speaking a lot of truth. Husson's appeal to the supreme court has been a very politically sided debate. It is also difficult to show that you will have a law library, adequate professors, and an appropriate corriculum, when you can't begin building or hiring professors until you get the nod to move forward. Husson is expanding in leaps and bounds, and has already proven itself with offering excellence in its Doctoral Physical Therapy degrees, Pharmacology program, and Nursing programs. Not to mention the degrees offered in Business and Education. I have no doubt that they would operate a first class Law School. Perhaps better than USM. Unfortunately we will never know. It is my understanding that Husson will most likely abandon the persuit of a Law School, and look at other areas to grow.report abuse

Player of Gray, ME No. Husson didn't get it because they are not accredited, among other reasons.report abuse

keke of portland, ME BoSox47, in theory you are correct but politically this had much to do with USM's school of lawreport abuse

Bosox47 of Portland, ME The key word here is accreditation. Accreditation means having adequate professors, an adequate library library, etc. This is an update article, so the PHH had no time to explain all this, I assume they will explain what all this means in the full article. It has nothing to do with USM. It is an accreditation issue that Husson ran by the Supremes before going ahead with their plan. They submitted material to the Supremes that simply was not up to accreditation standards.report abuse

NewName Every2Weeks of Freeport, ME minimum standards to be a lawyer...ha ha. Good one.report abuse

keke of portland, ME FACT: Husson didn't get the nod because USM didn't want any in state competition.report abuse

birdyard of Arundel, ME what's free about this countryreport abuse