LAYNE v. SUPT MASS CORRECTIONAL INST., CEDAR JUNCTION


406 Mass. 156 (1989)

546 N.E.2d 166

ROBERT M. LAYNE & another vs. SUPERINTENDENT, MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, CEDAR JUNCTION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

November 20, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander G. Gray, Jr., for the defendants.

Paul Germanotta for the plaintiffs.

Jane K. Alper, for Disability Law Center, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The defendants appeal from a judgment awarding monetary damages to the plaintiffs. A Superior Court judge entered that judgment pursuant to a memorandum of decision and order for judgment filed by another Superior Court judge. The judge who ordered that relief be granted to the plaintiffs did so on their motion for summary judgment because, in her view, the plaintiffs were unlawfully denied access to the prison library, due to their physical handicaps...

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