DAVRIC MAINE CORP. v. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

No. 00-1672.

238 F.3d 58 (2001)

DAVRIC MAINE CORPORATION, and Joseph Ricci, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, and Joseph Leonti Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S. MacColl, with whom Thompson, Bull, Furey, Bass & MacColl, L.L.C., John S. Campbell, and Campbell & McArdle, P.A., were on brief, for appellant.

Halsey B. Frank, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


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...

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