Legal Opinion
Lester v. Powers
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 2, 1991PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLINS, Justice.
Lewis F. Lester appeals from a summary judgment in the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Alexander, J.). The court concluded Lester could have no recovery on his claims for libel, slander, and tortious interference with contract 1 against his former student, Mary Jane E. Powers. We affirm.
Powers was a Colby College undergraduate majoring in psychology. In early 1985, during her junior year, she took a class in abnormal psychology from Lester, then an associate professor. One of the classes was a discussion of homosexuality — specifically, the appropriateness of classifying…
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