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GONZALEZ v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

407 Mass. 448 (1990)

553 N.E.2d 1295

ROMAN GONZALEZ & OTHERS vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 17, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra L. Hautanen, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of Correction & others.

Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. (Geoffrey C. Cook with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

O'CONNOR, J.

Roman Gonzalez and Floyd Piner commenced this action in the Superior Court in September, 1987. Their complaint, which characterized the action as a class action on behalf of all inmates at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley (M.C.I. Shirley), challenged the Federal and State constitutionality of the urinalysis drug-testing program at that facility. When the action was filed, Gonzalez and Piner were incarcerated at M.C.I. Shirley. On...

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