Schmitt v. Murphy

Agnes, Peter W., J.

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This is a civil action in which the plaintiff, Joseph P. Schmitt, a person who has been adjudicated to be a “sexually dangerous person” and confined to Bridgewater State Hospital (“Hospital”), brings this action against, among others, defendant Robert Murphy, the Massachusetts Treatment Center (Superintendent) 1 alleging that the Hospital’s mail regulations, as promulgated under 103 Code Mass. Regs. §481.00 et seq., are unconstitutional and that he is entitled to damages under federal civil rights laws. The defendant *188Superintendent has filed a motion to dismiss in which he…