Legal Opinion

Bowen v. Department of Human Services

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided April 17, 1992PublishedCited by 46 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COLLINS, Justice.

Thelma Bowen appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Hancock County, Kravchuk, J.) in favor of the Department of Human Services (DHS) and Dolores Bartley in Bowen’s action for sexual discrimination, retaliatory discharge, and several related tort claims. We affirm.

The facts as developed for purposes of this summary judgment ruling may be summarized as follows when viewed in a light most favorable to the plaintiff. In July 1987, Bowen interviewed with Bartley for a position with the DHS. Bartley was supervisor for the Child Protection Services Unit in…

2Cases cited8 opinions

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  4. Cohen v. Fred Meyer, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
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