Legal Opinion
Davric Maine Corp. v. United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 26, 2001No. 00-1672PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
In the course of deciding on a site for a new postal facility, Joseph Leonti, the plant manager of the Portland, Maine, United States Postal Service center, made ill-considered statements about one of the sites that had been under consideration. The owner of the site, the Davric Maine Corporation, felt that it and the site had been defamed. Davric and the man who owns it, Joseph Ricci, filed suit in federal court against both the Postal Service and Leonti for defamation and-tortious interference under state law, and in addition claimed that a constitutional tort had been…
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