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SILVA v. CITY OF NEW BEDFORD

No. 10-1013.

660 F.3d 76 (2011)

Lisa M. SILVA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW BEDFORD, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 1, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valeriano Diviacchi , with whom Diviacchi Law Office was on brief, for appellant.

Joseph L. Tehan, Jr. , with whom Jackie Cowin and Kopelman and Paige, P.C. were on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, HOWARD, Circuit Judge, and DiCLERICO, District Judge.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the dismissal on res judicata grounds of a second action, arising from a June 2007 altercation between the plaintiff-appellant, Lisa Silva, and two police officers at a nightclub in New Bedford, Massachusetts. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Silva filed suit in August of 2007 against the two New Bedford officers who arrested her during the nightclub incident. The district court denied Silva's motion to...

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