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MASS. ASS'N OF OLDER AMER. v. COM'R OF PUB. WELF.

No. 86-1126.

803 F.2d 35 (1986)

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF OLDER AMERICANS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Noonan, First Deputy General Counsel, Dept. of Public Welfare, Hyde Park, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and E. Michael Sloman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Government Bureau, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

J. Paterson Rae, Western Massachusetts Legal Services, for plaintiffs, appellees.

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

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

The Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare, defendant-appellant, appeals from a district court order holding him in civil contempt. The district court found that defendant violated an injunction contained in a so-called Partial Final Judgment issued on May 25, 1983, the judgment having been issued in accordance with the decision of this court in Massachusetts Ass'n of Older Americans v. Sharp, 700 F.2d 749

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