PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 12, 2024
A ruling by a lower court justice on the matter of allowing public access at Moody Beach in Wells is heading to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and possibly the U.S. Supreme Court, says an attorney representing the plaintiffs who want to be able to walk and recreate on the York County beach. Benjamin Ford of the Portland law firm Archipelago said in an interview Monday that the plaintiffs will appeal to the state’s highest court Superior Court Justice John O’Neil Jr.’s Feb. 9 ruling that denied Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s motion for summary judgment and which dismissed the plaintiffs’ motion asserting their right to walk on intertidal lands.