Legal Opinion
Deegan Patterson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 22, 2006No. 05-2093PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.
Catherine Deegan Patterson and Yvonne Deegan Gioka appeal from the district court judgment which dismissed their Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) complaint due to their failure to file within the applicable two-year statute of limitations. See 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b). We affirm.
I
BACKGROUND
In March 1965, two FBI informants— Vincent Flemmi and Joseph Barboza— murdered Edward “Teddy” Deegan in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The Boston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) knew beforehand of the informants’ plans, but did nothing either to stop the murder, or to prevent…
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