WALSH v. TOWN OF MILLINOCKET

Docket: Pen-10-478.

28 A.3d 610 (2011)

2011 ME 99

Mary WALSH v. TOWN OF MILLINOCKET.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: September 8, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melissa A. Hewey, Esq. (orally) Kaighn Smith, Esq. , Elek A. Miller, Esq. , Drummond Woodsum , Portland, ME, for the Town of Millinocket.

Arthur J. Greif, Esq. (orally) Julie D. Farr, Esq. , Gilbert & Greif, P.A., Bangor, ME, for Mary Walsh.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] In this case, a jury has found, twice, that a Town Councilor exhibited discriminatory animus towards Mary Walsh because she had engaged in statutorily-protected conduct, and that this discriminatory animus was a cause or a motivating factor for the Millinocket Town Council's decision to eliminate Mary Walsh's position and thus terminate her employment with the Town. Walsh contends that discriminatory animus expressed by one member of the Town...

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