Legal Opinion
Blaney v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 6, 1978PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
On November 20, 1974, Stephen F. Blaney, Jr., an inmate of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole (Walpole), filed on his own behalf a petition for a writ of mandamus in which he challenged the conditions of his protective custody in Block 10 at Walpole. Since then, Blaney’s action has been joined with others, collectively known as the protective custody cases, and the collective custody cases have been ordered to proceed as a class action on behalf of all present and future protective custody inmates under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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