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CONSUMER ADVISORY BD. v. GLOVER

Nos. 92-1550, 92-1638.

989 F.2d 65 (1993)

CONSUMER ADVISORY BOARD, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Robert W. GLOVER, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Kelley with whom Judson Esty-Kendall, Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Portland, ME, and Neville Woodruff, Auburn, ME, were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Richard G. Bergeron, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Michael E. Carpenter, Atty. Gen., H. Cabanne Howard, and Thomas D. Warren, Deputy Attys. Gen., State of Me., Augusta, ME, were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

On July 14, 1978, Judge Edward T. Gignoux, now deceased, entered a consent decree in the district court settling a class action. The suit had been brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a number of state officials in Maine, including the Commissioner of Mental Health, on behalf of a class of mentally retarded Maine citizens. A focus of the suit was the operation of Pineland Center, a state institution for the mentally retarded.

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