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LANGTON v. JOHNSTON

Nos. 89-2052, 90-1269 and 90-1270.

928 F.2d 1206 (1991)

William LANGTON, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Philip JOHNSTON, et al., Defendants, Appellees, John Bruder, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants. John BRUDER, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Philip JOHNSTON, et al., Defendants, Appellees. John BRUDER, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Philip JOHNSTON, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided: March 22, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Wadland, with whom Charles Donelan, Katherine E. Perrelli, and Day, Berry & Howard were on brief, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs, appellants.

Eric J. Mogilnicki, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., was on brief, Boston, Mass., for defendants, appellees.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and LAGUEUX, District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, representatives of a class consisting of patients at a state institution, the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons (the Treatment Center), assail the conditions of their confinement. The defendants are all state officials, including the Secretary of Human Services, the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health (DMH), the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections...

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