Legal Opinion
Chasse v. Mazerolle
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided September 25, 1990PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Justice.
Dorothy Chasse appeals from a summary judgment in favor of defendant Denis Mazerolle, M.D. entered in Superior Court (Penobscot County, Browne, J.) on Chasse’s claim that she was wrongfully sterilized. Chasse contends that the court misconstrued the requirements of 34 M.R. S.A. § 2461 (1964) by concluding that there was no causal relationship between Maze-rolle’s failure to comply with the statute and the harm alleged in the complaint. Because we agree that summary judgment was inappropriate, we vacate the judgment.
In 1973 Dorothy Chasse was a nineteen year old retarded woman…
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