Legal Opinion
Tapalian v. Town of Seekonk
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 23, 2004No. 02-1732PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.
James V. Tusino, the Superintendent of the Department of Public Works (DPW) for the Town of Seekonk, Massachusetts (“Town”), appeals from a district court judgment directing him to pay plaintiff-appellee H. Charles Tapaban compensatory and punitive damages for violating Ta-palian’s equal protection rights in connection with a road reconstruction project. As we discern no error, we affirm the district court judgment.
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BACKGROUND
Our review of the record discloses that the jury rationally could have found the following facts: In 1989, the Town rejected Tapalian’s…
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