Legal Opinion
Brown v. Newberger
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 30, 2002No. 01-2410PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals follow on the efforts of plaintiffs-appellants, Theodore Brown and James Linnehan, to acquire rights to visit their children. The children had been taken by their mothers during pending divorce and custody proceedings from Maine to Massachusetts, where the mothers obtained court orders barring the fathers from visitation on the basis of findings of sexual abuse.
Brown and Linnehan joined in filing a suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against a dozen defendants, including the Trial Court of…
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