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BREWSTER v. DUKAKIS

Nos. 85-1775, 85-1776.

786 F.2d 16 (1986)

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

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 14, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Barnico, with whom William L. Pardee, Asst. Attys. Gen., Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., were on brief, for defendants, appellants.

Steven J. Schwartz, with whom Robert D. Fleischner, Center for Public Representation, were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Edward P. Leibensperger, Kurt A. Ogle, Nutter, McClennen and Fish, and Marjorie Heins, Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union Foundation, on brief for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Greater Boston Legal Services, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, amicus curiae.

Before COFFIN and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges, and PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from an attorney's fee award covering work performed by counsel for the plaintiff class, residents of the Northampton State Hospital, during two and one half years subsequent to entry of a complex consent decree. The decree bound the responsible Massachusetts officials to establish a system for the care and treatment of mentally disabled persons in community residential facilities and nonresidential programs.

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