Legal Opinion
Litif v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 20, 2012No. 10-1417, 10-1472, 11-2255PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
The United States seeks review of a judgment awarding $1.15 million to the family and the estate of Louis Litif (“the Litif estate”), resulting from Litif s murder by James “Whitey” Bulger in 1980. Litif v. United States, 682 F.Supp.2d 60 (D.Mass.2010). The Litif estate cross-appeals, seeking an increase in the damage award. This case, like its companion case decided by us today (“Davis-Hussey ”) and others already decided, 1 stems from FBI agents’ sheltering of Bulger and his associate Stephen Flemmi over several decades.
In the 1970s, Louis Litif worked as a bookmaker…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- United States v. KubrickSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Miles v. Apex Marine Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Skwira v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2003
- Miles v. MelroseCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
- McIntyre v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2004
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