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SEPHTON v. F.B.I.

No. 05-1820.

442 F.3d 27 (2005)

Graeme SEPHTON, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 31, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Stotter, with whom Bromley Newton, LLP, Robert Wolkon, and Wolkon & Pascucci, LLP were on brief, for appellant.

Karen L. Goodwin, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

In 1996, a passenger airliner bound for Paris crashed in the Atlantic Ocean ten minutes after departing from New York. All on board perished. Following an investigation by multiple federal agencies, including the FBI, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the probable cause of the crash was an explosion in one of the fuel tanks. A group of the victims' family members formed an unofficial organization to conduct an independent...

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