Legal Opinion
Giragosian v. Ryan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 10, 2008No. 08-1067PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Paul Giragosian owned and operated a gun shop in Arlington, Massachusetts for approximately thirty-one years. In March 2007, Arlington’s Chief of Police, Frederick Ryan, revoked and forfeited appellant’s licenses to carry and sell firearms. Subsequently, appellant filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit in federal district court alleging that Ryan and the Town of Arlington violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court granted appel-lees’ motion to dismiss.
The issues before us on appeal are (1) whether appellant’s § 1983 claims are…
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