Legal Opinion
King v. Greenblatt
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided June 21, 1999No. Civ.A. 72-788-ADM, Civ.A. 72-571-ADMPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MAZZONE, District Judge.
These two cases involve a resident population of civilly-committed sexually dangerous persons at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons in Bridgewater, Massachusetts (the “Treatment Center”). They enter their final stage on the defendants’ renewed motion to vacate or terminate longstanding consent decrees which were put in place approximately twenty-five years ago to govern operations at the facility. The road to this point has been long and uneven. The twenty-seven years of litigation along the route has been exhaustively…
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