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CIVETTI v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE

392 Mass. 474 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 101

KATHLEEN CIVETTI vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE (and five companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Pardee, Assistant Attorney General, for Commissioner of Public Welfare.

Mark Spiegel for Kathleen Civetti.

Ilene Seidman for Jeanne Dever & another.

Suzanne Harris for Patricia Furtado.

Nancy Borofsky for Claire Cooper & John J. Finn for Sandra Brunetta, joined in a brief, for Claire Cooper & others.

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

ABRAMS, J.

The plaintiffs in the six cases we review are five women who entered into voluntary agreements with the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) pursuant to which their children were placed in residential schools, and one woman whose children attended a residential school while in the DPW's temporary custody pending adjudication of a petition for care and protection. Each plaintiff brought an action in the Superior Court seeking judicial review of the decisions...

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