United States First Circuit

Plaintiffs' suit, stemming from their wrongful conviction by the FBI, is dismissed where the Federal Tort Claims Act does not support the assertion of federal subject matter jurisdiction for the suit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2005
• Published 03/23/2005

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Hrones, with whom Hrones, Garrity & Hedges was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anita Johnson, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and George B. Henderson, II, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.