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TORRACO v. MALONEY

No. 90-1477.

923 F.2d 231 (1991)

Ellen TORRACO, etc., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Michael MALONEY, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold I. Resnic, Springfield, Mass., for plaintiff, appellant.

Charles M. Wyzanski, Legal Counsel, Dept. of Correction, with whom Nancy Ankers White, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief for defendant, appellee, Michael Maloney.

Lee Carl Bromberg with whom Kerry L. Timbers and Bromberg & Sunstein, Boston, Mass., were on brief for defendant, appellee, Edward Messina.

Before CAMPBELL and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.

ATKINS, Senior District Judge.

Ellen Torraco, administratrix of the estate of Michael Torraco, her son, appeals from a decision of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants Michael Maloney and Edward Messina, the prison psychologist and the superintendent of MCI-Cedar Junction, respectively. Plaintiff/appellant Ms. Torraco filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that her son's suicide was caused by the defendants/appellees' deliberate...

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