Legal Opinion
Powers v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 6, 1996PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Justice.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (Planned Parenthood) appeals from an order of the Superior Court (Franklin County, Delahanty, J.) granting Mary Powers’s petition to perpetuate testimony pursuant to M.R.Civ.P. 27. 1 We affirm the order.
At some point between January 1, 1994, and May 7, 1995, Mary Powers was diagnosed with cervical cancer. On May 7,1995, Powers told her attorney, Paul Dumas, that she had six months to live. On May 21, Powers told Dumas that her prognosis had changed and that she only had two months to live.
On May 24, Dumas filed in Franklin County,…
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