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HUSSEY v. SULLIVAN

Nos. 80-1671, 80-1713.

651 F.2d 74 (1981)

Edward C. HUSSEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James Leo SULLIVAN, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Edward C. HUSSEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Leo SULLIVAN, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. McElhiney, Woburn, Mass., with whom Wayne A. Perkins, and McSweeney, Snow, Sheehan & Perkins, Somerville, Mass., were on brief, for Edward C. Hussey.

Edward D. Kalman, Boston, Mass., with whom Kenneth A. Behar, Barbara J. Sproat, and O'Leary, Behar & Kalman, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for City Officials of the City of Cambridge.

Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and E. Michael Sloman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., on brief for the Personnel Administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Before BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff-appellant, Edward C. Hussey, appeals the district court's ruling 498 F.Supp. 594, that his civil rights action based on 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) was barred by the six months limitation mandated by Mass.Gen.Laws Ann. ch. 31, § 42, which it found to be the state law "most analogous" to appellant's claim. We affirm.

Plaintiff, a police officer for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts...

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