Legal Opinion
Estate of Patricia E. Gilmore, Joseph P. Gilmore v. John J. Buckley
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 31, 1986No. 85-1439PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
On December 20, 1979, Patricia Gilmore was murdered by Bradford Prendergast, a Billerica House of Correction inmate, while Prendergast was on leave from the House of Correction on a two-day furlough. Plaintiff-appellant Joseph P. Gilmore, administrator of the estate of Patricia Gilmore, brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against defendants-appellees Middle-sex County, the Middlesex County Commissioners, the Sheriff of Middlesex County, the Superintendent of the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by78 opinions
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- Rose Bordanaro v. John McLeod Appeal of City of Everett, Edward Connolly, and Donald BontempoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1989
- Cynthia Ketchum v. County of Alameda Alameda County Board of Supervisors Sheriff Glenn Dyer and Chief Ron CainCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
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