Lawsuit challenging Sunday hunting ban likely headed to Maine’s top court
The suit asserts that hunting should be included under the right-to-food amendment passed by Maine voters in November 2021.
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"The lawsuit targeting Maine’s ban on Sunday hunting is the first to argue that a new constitutional right to food trumps a major state law. The Parkers contend the ban is archaic and prevents them from harvesting food for their family.
Democratic lobbyist Jared Bornstein, executive director of Maine Hunters United for Sunday Hunting, the group that spearheaded the most recent effort to overturn the state’s law prohibiting hunting on Sunday, said the ruling does not mean the suit is over, rather that the Parkers will be filing an appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
“It does look bad, but it’s really not,” Bornstein said of the judge’s decision."