United States First Circuit

In a case seeking review of a judgment awarding $1.15 million to the family and the estate of a murder victim of FBI informant James "Whitey" Bulger in 1980, judgment is affirmed, where: 1) the plaintiffs' claims were not barred by the Federal Tort Claims Act statute of limitations; 2) the district court did not err in finding that the plaintiffs had shown that it was more likely than not that Bulger caused the victim's death; and 3) the amount of the district court's award of damages was not an abuse of discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2012
• Published 01/20/2012

Judges

• Boudin

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas M. Bondy, Edward Berkin