LOGUE v. DORE

No. 96-1143.

103 F.3d 1040 (1997)

James LOGUE, Sr., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Ronald DORE, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Rowerdink, III, Quincy, MA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Leonard H. Kesten, Boston, MA, with whom Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten was on brief, for defendant-appellee.

Before SELYA and STAHL, Circuit Judges, and WOODLOCK, District Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Asserting that the proceedings below were tainted both by the district judge's mistaken view of the law and by his personal animus, plaintiff-appellant James Logue invites us to order a new trial before a different trier. We decline the invitation.

I. BACKGROUND

Since one of Logue's principal complaints is that the district court took his false arrest and false imprisonment claims from the jury at the close of his case in chief...

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