GAUTSCHI v. MAISEL


565 A.2d 1009 (1989)

Frederick H. GAUTSCHI, III v. L. Sandy MAISEL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided November 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Kierstead (orally), Waterville, for plaintiff.

Hugh G.E. MacMahon (orally), Drummond, Woodsum, Plimpton & MacMahon, Wendall G. Large, Richardson & Troubh, Portland, for defendant.

Before ROBERTS and WATHEN, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD, HORNBY and COLLINS, JJ.


HORNBY, Justice.

The question in this case is whether a statement by a professor serving on an academic tenure committee at a private college was privileged so as to prevent his colleague's recovery of damages for slander. We affirm the judgment of the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Alexander, J.) granting summary judgment to the defendant.

In the course of the plaintiff Gautschi's tenure review at Colby College, the tenure committee obtained a letter...

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