Legal Opinion
Rolland v. Patrick
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 19, 2010No. 08-1874PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This appeal by a small number of the plaintiff class challenges the 2008 approval of an amended settlement agreement between the remaining plaintiff class members and the state in a longstanding class action. See Rolland v. Patrick (Rolland XI), 562 F.Supp.2d 176 (D.Mass.2008). The original suit, brought in 1998 by developmentally disabled nursing home residents on behalf of over 1000 class members, alleged that Massachusetts did not provide appropriate treatments in appropriate settings to them as federal law required. Here, 43 class members at one nursing facility object…
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