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SYLVANDER v. NEW ENGLAND HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS

Nos. 78-1081, 78-1082.

584 F.2d 1103 (1978)

Gail SYLVANDER et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. NEW ENGLAND HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 29, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucien Wulsin, Jr., East Boston, Mass., with whom James H. Wexler, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Robert C. Silver, Boston, Mass., with whom Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges, PETTINE, District Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Gail Sylvander appeals from a judgment of the district court dismissing both her civil rights complaint brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and her habeas corpus petition brought under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2254. Ms. Sylvander sued in the federal district court after the Massachusetts state courts had ruled against her in a dispute over the right of the New England Home for Little Wanderers, a state-licensed, privately-run...

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