A judge on Wednesday refused to issue an emergency injunction aimed at stopping the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife from using its resources to campaign against a ban on baiting, trapping and using dogs to hunt bears.
Justice Joyce Wheeler ruled that the group that sought the injunction, Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting, had failed to demonstrate that the department’s opposition to Question 1 on the November ballot caused “irreparable injury,” and that department employees’ free speech is protected under the First Amendment.
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