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INMATES OF SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL v. RUFO

No. 93-1460.

12 F.3d 286 (1993)

INMATES OF the SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Robert RUFO, Sheriff of Suffolk County, et al., Defendants, Appellants. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas H. Wilkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Scott Harshbarger, Atty. Gen., and Thomas O. Bean, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellants.

Max D. Stern with whom Lynn Weissberg and Stern, Shapiro, Rosenfeld & Weissberg, Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellees.

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

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

The Commissioner of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the "Commissioner"), defendant-appellant, brought a motion in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to vacate a consent decree of May 7, 1979 (as modified by the orders of April 11, 1985, and April 22, 1985)1 entered into by the Sheriff of Suffolk County (the "Sheriff"), the Commissioner, and others...

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