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BLANEY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

374 Mass. 337 (1978)

372 N.E.2d 770

STEPHEN F. BLANEY, JR. & others vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terence M. Troyer, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Arlene Marcus (Joseph Flynn with her) for the plaintiffs.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

On November 20, 1974, Stephen F. Blaney, Jr., an inmate of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole (Walpole), filed on his own behalf a petition for a writ of mandamus in which he challenged the conditions of his protective custody in Block 10 at Walpole. Since then, Blaney's action has been joined with others, collectively known as the protective custody cases, and the collective custody cases have been ordered to proceed as a class action...

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