BREWSTER v. DUKAKIS

Civ. A. No. 76-4423-F.

520 F.Supp. 882 (1981)

David BREWSTER, et al., Plaintiffs v. Michael S. DUKAKIS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

August 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mental Patients Advocacy Project, Western Mass. Legal Services, Northampton State Hospital, Steven J. Schwartz, William C. Newman, Northampton, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Nonnie S. Burnes & Robert G. Bone, Hill & Barlow, Boston, Mass., for Mass. Assn. for Retarded Citizens.

Michael Broad, Catherine A. White, Asst. Attys. Gen., Boston, Mass., for Evelyn McLean-Linda Glenn.

Michael Ponsor, Brown, Hart & Ponsor, Amherst, Mass., for monitor for consent decree.


MEMORANDUM

FREEDMAN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The disputes before this Court arise from differences in interpretation of the Consent Decree entered in this case on December 7, 1978.

In order to understand the position of the Court, a brief summary of the history and contents of the Decree is necessary.

The Complaint in this matter was filed in December 1976. The Decree was born out of two years of intense negotiation between...

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