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KADLICK v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

431 Mass. 850 (2000)

STEVEN KADLICK & others v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 28, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amy Spector, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Frank Laski (Jennifer Honig with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, & COWIN, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

This case arises from an award of attorney's fees to the plaintiffs for legal work performed by the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee (MHLAC)3 in a civil rights suit against the Department of Mental Health (DMH or department). The plaintiffs had sought the fees under three statutes that allow an award of attorney's fees to a "prevailing" party in such suits: 42 U.S.C. §...

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