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MASSACHUSETTS ASS'N FOR RETARDED CITIZENS v. KING

Nos. 81-1292, 81-1692.

668 F.2d 602 (1981)

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edward J. KING, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Mohl, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and Thomas Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendants-appellants.

Nonnie S. Burnes, Boston, Mass., with whom Richard W. Renehan, and Hill & Barlow, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and MURRAY, Senior District Judge.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

This case is a late offshoot of five consolidated class actions that challenged on constitutional and statutory grounds the conditions at five schools for the retarded in Massachusetts. The basic actions were settled by consent decrees, but subject to the continuing supervision of the district court. The preliminary injunction that is the focus of this case was precipitated by the passage by the Massachusetts Legislature of a charge-for-care...

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