United States First Circuit

Dismissal of claims arising out of the death of plaintiff's husband at the hands of FBI informants is affirmed where plaintiff failed to exhaust her administrative remedies for her Federal Tort Claims Act claim against the government and plaintiff's Bivens and wrongful death suits were barred by the statute of limitations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/07/2006
• Published 09/07/2006

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and HUG, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Earle C. Cooley, with whom Kevin M. Glynn and Cooley Manion Jones LLP were on brief, for appellant., Joshua Waldman, Appellate Staff Attorney, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and Robert S. Greenspan, Appellate Staff Attorney, were on brief, for United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen C. Pfaff, with whom Douglas I. Louison, Merrick, Louison & Costello, LLP, William A. Brown, Alan D. Rose, Alan D. Rose, Jr., Richard E. Bowman, Rose & Associates, Brian P. Fitzsimmons, Hanley, Hassett & Fitzsimmons, LLC, Christine M. Roach, and Roach & Carpenter, PC were on brief, for appellees Roderick Kennedy, Robert Fitzpatrick, James Ring, James Ahearn, and James Greenleaf.