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DOE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL (NO. 1)

425 Mass. 210 (1997)

JOHNNY DOE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & others (No. 1).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

June 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General (H. Gregory Williams, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Attorney General & others.

Stephen R. Kaplan for the plaintiff.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Carol A. Donovan & Mary Lisa Bonauto for the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another.

Isabel Sara Raskin & Francine T. Sherman for the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts & another.

Kevin M. Keating & Alan H. Okstein for Johnny Doe.

Joseph Lichtblau for Janet A. & another.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

On November 19, 1996, a judge in the Superior Court entered an order preliminarily enjoining the Commonwealth, its agents, employees, and representatives "from enforcing, implementing and complying with any and all provisions of St. 1996, Chapter 239" as to the plaintiff. Chapter 239 of the Acts of 1996, entitled "An Act relative to sex offender registration and community notification," added §§ 178C through 1780 to G. L. c. 6 (sex offender...

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