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DOE v. GAUGHAN

No. 85-1844.

808 F.2d 871 (1986)

John DOE, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Charles W. GAUGHAN, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick MacLeish, Jr. with whom Susan B. Tuchman and Fine & Ambrogne, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

John W. Bishop, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Maryanne Conway, Dept. of Correction, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, and COFFIN and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the district court holding that the confinement, under civil commitment, of the two mentally ill appellants to Bridgewater State Hospital, a facility of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, did not violate their constitutional rights. Doe by Roe v. Gaughan, 617 F.Supp. 1477 (D.Mass.1985).

Appellant John Doe, a chronic schizophrenic, presently...

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