Legal Opinion
Francis Lovely v. Oscar Laliberte
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 24, 1974No. 74-1062PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
Francis Lovely brought an action in the federal district court against Oscar Laliberte, alleging that Laliberte was maliciously and unconstitutionally employing state process to evict him from Laliberte’s mobile home park. Allegedly Laliberte’s true motivation for the eviction stemmed from Lovely’s public protests over the condition and scarcity of mobile home parks, his petitions to alter local zoning ordinances, and his “tenant group activities”. The action, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeks to bring Lovely’s situation within the logic of Lavoie v.…
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