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Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 1991

Morton Aaron Brody

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Morton Aaron Brody was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1933–2000
Tenure: 1990–1991 · 1 yr
Education: Bates College 1955

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Chicago
Bates College	B.A.	1955

Judicial Record

In our data, Brody authored 43 published opinions for the court (1990–1991), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Bard v. Bath Iron Works Corp. (74 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. 47 of these were attributed to Brody 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
1991	Bard v. Bath Iron Works Corp.†	590 A.2d 152	74
1991	Perrin v. Town of Kittery· Dissent†	591 A.2d 861	37
1991	Electronic Media International v. Pioneer Communications of America, Inc.†	586 A.2d 1256	37
1990	Latremore v. Latremore†	584 A.2d 626	33
1991	Dugan v. Martel†	588 A.2d 744	31
1990	Hamm v. Hamm†	584 A.2d 59	30
1991	Maine Bonding & Casualty Co. v. Douglas Dynamics, Inc.†	594 A.2d 1079	27
1991	Gerald v. Town of York†	589 A.2d 1272	27
1990	State v. Cress†	576 A.2d 1366	26
1990	MacDonald v. MacDonald†	582 A.2d 976	23
1991	Pelkey v. Canadian Pacific Ltd.†	586 A.2d 1248	19
1991	MAINE AFL-CIO v. Superintendent of Ins.†	595 A.2d 424	18
1991	Marxsen v. Board of Dir., MSAD No. 5†	591 A.2d 867	17
1991	State v. Glover†	594 A.2d 1086	16
1991	State v. Jurek†	594 A.2d 553	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 Morton Aaron Brody on?: Morton Aaron Brody was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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1 year 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).