Legal Opinion
Pidge v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 21, 1992No. 90-P-482PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLaurence, J.
The plaintiff is a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction. In October, 1989, he brought suit pro se in the Superior Court against various prison officials following an adverse disciplinary proceeding on April 17, 1989, and his subsequent classification to a segregated unit (DSU).2
The diffuse averments of the plaintiff’s complaint were far from the “short and plain statement” called for by the rules, see Mass.R.Civ.P. 8(a), 365 Mass. 749 (1974), which apply equally to pro se as to other litigants, see Mmoe v. Commonwealth, 393 Mass. 617, 620 (1985). They did,…
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