Legal Opinion
Aversa v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 21, 1996No. 95-2216PublishedCited by 433 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
Daniel and Carla Aversa filed a civil action alleging that Patrick Walsh, an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of New Hampshire, and Kenneth Claunch, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service, falsely stated and implied to the local and national news media that Daniel Aversa was involved in laundering illegally-gotten money, tax evasion, drug trafficking and racketeering activity, and thus committed slander and other common law torts under New Hampshire law and deprived him of his right to liberty guaranteed by the…
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