Legal Opinion
Hannon v. Beard
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 16, 2009No. Civil Action No. 06-10700-NMGPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
GORTON, District Judge.
In this prisoner civil rights suit, the plaintiffs have moved the Court to reconsider 1) its dismissal of three of the defendants for lack of personal jurisdiction and 2) its denial of their motion to have counsel appointed to represent them.
I. Background
The plaintiffs in this case are 40 prisoners who filed suit pro se on April 11, 2006, against 63 defendants, most of whom are prison officials, to challenge the physical conditions of their confinement at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center (“SBCC”) in Shirley, Massachusetts. They allege that SBCC…
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- Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. HaldermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Dennis R. Cookish v. Michael Cunningham, Warden, New Hampshire State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1986
- Hannon v. BeardCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2008
- Commonwealth v. ELM Medical Laboratories, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1992
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Hannon v. BeardDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2009