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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1988

Louis Scolnik

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Louis Scolnik was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1923 · age 103
Tenure: 1983–1988 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bates College
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Scolnik authored 162 published opinions for the court (1983–1988), plus 21 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Jourdain v. Dineen (87 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 188 of these were attributed to Scolnik by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1987	Jourdain v. Dineen†	527 A.2d 1304	87
1986	Bernier v. Raymark Industries, Inc.†	516 A.2d 534	74
1988	Trusiani v. Cumberland & York Distributors, Inc.· Dissent†	538 A.2d 258	64
1986	Rowe v. Bennett†	514 A.2d 802	62
1988	St. Germain v. Husqvarna Corp.†	544 A.2d 1283	53
1987	Union Mutual Fire Insurance v. Commercial Union Insurance†	521 A.2d 308	52
1986	Rubin v. Matthews International Corp.†	503 A.2d 694	51
1988	State v. Cloutier· Dissent†	544 A.2d 1277	48
1985	City of Portland v. Jacobsky· Concurrence†	496 A.2d 646	48
1983	L. Ray Packing Co. v. Commercial Union Insurance†	469 A.2d 832	44
1986	MacOmber v. Dillman· Concurrence†	505 A.2d 810	43
1985	State v. Chapman†	495 A.2d 314	41
1985	Baker v. Mid Maine Medical Center†	499 A.2d 464	38
1988	Mueller v. Penobscot Valley Hospital†	538 A.2d 294	37
1984	State v. Conlogue· Dissent†	474 A.2d 167	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 188 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Louis Scolnik on?: Louis Scolnik was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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4 years on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).