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IN RE PEARSON

No. 92-2158.

990 F.2d 653 (1993)

In re Donald PEARSON, et al., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Geiger, with whom Joseph D. Halpern, Michele A. Whitham, Sarah Burgess Reed, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, were on brief, for petitioners.

William L. Pardee, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Scott Harshbarger, Atty. Gen., Boston, MA, was on brief, for respondents.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and SELYA, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners seek a writ of mandamus which, if granted, will halt the district court's nascent efforts to probe the continuing need for, or the possible modification of, consent decrees affecting the operation of a state institution, the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons (the Treatment Center). Because petitioners cannot satisfy the strict prerequisites for extraordinary relief by way of mandamus, we dismiss the petition...

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