Pitiful Pitegoff

“How dare you teach classes like Constitutional Law, Ethics, and Appellate Practice?” I told Cabanne Howard over the phone in November. He’s the executive secretary for the Committee on Judicial Responsibility and Disability... he advises the Committee. Howard is also a Law Professor at the Maine School of Law in Portland. 

According to Committee rules, all complaints must be investigated, unless they're frivolous. Since the Committee, however, only publicizes those complaints which get investigated... they can hide behind this curtain of "confidentiality."

Peter Pitegoff is Dean of the University of Maine School of Law where “Cab,” Howard teaches. I sent Pitegoff a duplicate of my request to the committee for an investigation; but didn't get any response from him. 

The University of Maine System is made up of seven universities throughout the state. I attended at Southern Maine in the 1980’s, and in Fort Kent in the 1990’s and in 2006/2007. I have to admit that I felt a little “beat” that my tuition dollars were supporting a university system whose dean would not confront Professor Cabanne Howard about the dismissals of valid complaints of judicial misconduct.

There are only two law schools in New England; the other one is located in Boston Massachusetts.