Legal Opinion
D'Ercole v. D'Ercole
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 19, 1976No. Civ. A. 73-3070-TPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TAURO, District Judge.
This is an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which the plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief for deprivation of rights allegedly secured to her under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Jurisdiction is claimed under 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) and (4).
Basically, plaintiff’s complaint states that the common law concept of tenancy by the entirety, as formulated and enforced by case law, and as recognized by the statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, deprives her of due process and equal protection of the law in that it gives the defendant, her…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Reed v. ReedSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Frontiero v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Pray v. StebbinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- Campagna v. CampagnaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Krokyn v. KrokynMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Henry Friedman, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Janice Ann Marie Harold v. Janice Ann Marie HaroldCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1981
- Perry v. PerryCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1986
- Forbes v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1979
- DeCenzo v. Board of Assessors of FraminghamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
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