COMMONWEALTH v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SPRINGFIELD


382 Mass. 665 (1981)

417 N.E.2d 408

COMMONWEALTH & others vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SPRINGFIELD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 18, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Egan, Deputy City Solicitor, for the defendants.

Donald K. Stern, Assistant Attorney General (Carolyn Wood, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the plaintiffs.

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


QUIRICO, J.

On February 3, 1976, the Commonwealth filed a complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Springfield School Committee (school committee). The Commonwealth sought to enforce the rights of school-age children with special needs living in Springfield by an order requiring the school committee to comply with the provisions of G.L.c. 71B, inserted by St. 1972, c. 766, which is commonly referred...

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