GRIGGS-RYAN v. SMITH

Nos. 89-2204, 90-1004.

904 F.2d 112 (1990)

Gerald GRIGGS-RYAN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Beulah SMITH, Defendant, Appellee. Gerald GRIGGS-RYAN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Richard CONNELLY, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Van Houten, with whom Wood & Van Houten was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

John H. O'Neil, Jr. and Smith & Elliott, P.A. on brief, for defendant, appellee Beulah Smith.

John M.R. Paterson, with whom Neal F. Pratt and Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson were on brief, for defendants, appellees Richard Connelly and Town of Wells, Maine.

Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and CYR, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Reaching out to touch someone, plaintiff-appellant Gerald Griggs-Ryan filed two related civil actions in the United States District Court for the District of Maine. Suing his landlady, Beulah Smith, plaintiff alleged that she unlawfully intercepted and disclosed the contents of a telephone conversation in which he participated.1 Suing the Town of Wells and Richard Connelly, a detective in the Wells Police Department...

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