Jamie D. Pacheco v. Libby O'Brien Kingsley & Champion, LLC

Summary

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court held that issue preclusion does not bar the plaintiff's abuse of process and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims because the referee's findings were not essential to the divorce judgment, and it affirmed the dismissal of the negligent infliction of emotional distress claim for lack of a duty, remanding for further proceedings on the remaining claims.