BILIDA v. McCLEOD

No. CIV. A. 96-621L.

41 F.Supp.2d 142 (1999)

Claire BILIDA, Plaintiff, v. Andrew McCLEOD, in his capacity as Director of the Department of Environmental Management, Officer Jeffrey S. Belmonte, and Officer Sheila DiSarro, Deputy Chief Thomas Greene, and State of Rhode Island, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

January 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda S. MacDonald, MacDonald-Glenn & Associates, E. Greenwich, RI, John Michael Verdecchia, Providence, RI, for Plaintiff.

James R. Lee, Brenda A. Doyle, Attorney General's Office, Providence, RI, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, Chief Judge.

Claire Bilida ("plaintiff") rescued an orphaned racoon and raised the animal as her family's pet. Mia, the racoon, lived unremarkably for at least seven years in a wire cage attached to the back of plaintiff's house in Warwick, Rhode Island. That ended August 8, 1995 when the racoon was seized by officers of the Department of Environmental Management ("DEM"), Jeffrey Belmonte and Sheila DiSarro (the "DEM...

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