GLASSIE v. DOUCETTE

No. 21-1761.

55 F.4th 58 (2022)

Georgia GLASSIE, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Paul DOUCETTE; John Taft; and Thomas Glassie, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 5, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey K. Techentin , with whom Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. was on brief, for appellant.

Christine K. Bush , with whom Gerald J. Petros , Laurel M. Gilbert , and Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP were on brief, for appellee Doucette.

Keith B. Kyle , Catherine A. Shaghalian , and Orson and Brusini Ltd. on brief for appellee Taft.

Harris K. Weiner on brief for appellee Glassie.

Before Lynch and Kayatta, Circuit Judges, and Laplante, District Judge.


This case arises out of a prolonged and acrimonious family dispute over the property of the late hotelier Donelson Glassie, whose estate remains in probate in Rhode Island eleven years after his death. The question here is whether plaintiff has managed to drag the federal courts into the fray. For the following reasons, we...

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