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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 1976 / Served to 1983

Maurice Paul Bois

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Maurice Paul Bois was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1914 · age 112
Tenure: 1976–1983 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bois authored 229 published opinions for the court (1976–1983), plus 18 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Cloutier v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (161 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. 78 of these were attributed to Bois 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
1981	Cloutier v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.· Dissent†	121 N.H. 915	161
1980	Howard v. Dorr Woolen Co.†	120 N.H. 295	115
1983	State v. Sands†	123 N.H. 570	70
1980	State v. Pugliese· Dissent†	120 N.H. 728	54
1982	Petrie-Clemons v. Butterfield	122 N.H. 120	50
1980	In Re Russell C.	120 N.H. 260	49
1981	Mills v. Nashua Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n†	121 N.H. 722	41
1977	Proctor v. Butler	117 N.H. 927	41
1979	MBC, INC. v. Engel	119 N.H. 8	37
1977	Emery v. Caledonia Sand and Gravel Co.	117 N.H. 441	36
1979	Legislative Utility Consumers' Council v. Public Service Co.†	119 N.H. 332	34
1982	State Employees' Ass'n of New Hampshire, Inc. v. Belknap County	122 N.H. 614	33
1979	Pugliese v. Town of Northwood Planning Board	119 N.H. 743	33
1979	Olszak v. Peerless Insurance	119 N.H. 686	33
1982	Druding v. Allen	122 N.H. 823	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 251 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 New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Maurice Paul Bois on?: Maurice Paul Bois was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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