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BILIDA v. McCLEOD

No. 99-1263.

211 F.3d 166 (2000)

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

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 5, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Verdecchia with whom Law Offices of John M. Verdecchia and Linda MacDonald-Glenn were on brief for appellant.

Brenda A. Doyle, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General for the State of Rhode Island, was on brief for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

The sad history of this section 1983 case began in or around 1988 when Claire Bilida rescued an orphaned raccoon thereafter named "Mia." Bilida and her family raised the raccoon as a pet and kept her in a cage attached to the back of the family's home in Warwick, Rhode Island. Mia lived there for seven years until she was seized and destroyed in August 1995 by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management ("the Department") in the...

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