Legal Opinion
Donahue v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 10, 2011No. 09-1950, 10-1766, 09-1951, 09-1952PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These are the latest in a series of civil cases arising out of the unholy alliance between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and a notorious mobster, James J. “Whitey” Bulger. In this chapter of the sordid saga, the estates and heirs of two men killed on Bulger’s orders sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) for leaking confidential information to Bulger and enabling his reign of terror. The proceedings below culminated in multi-million-dollar judgments for the plaintiffs. The principal issue on appeal is whether the suits were timely…
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